[1] To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim-eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm.
[2] \80:1\Give ear, O Keeper of Israel, guiding Joseph like a flock; you
who have your seat on the winged ones, let your glory be seen. [3]
\80:2\Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, let your strength be awake
from sleep, and come as our salvation. [4] \80:3\Take us back again, O God;
let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe. [5] \80:4\O Lord
God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your
people? [6] \80:5\You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for
their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure. [7] \80:6\You make
us a cause of war among our neighbours; our haters are laughing at us among
themselves. [8] \80:7\Take us back again, O God of armies; let us see the
shining of your face, and let us be safe. [9] \80:8\You took a vine out of
Egypt: driving out the nations, and planting it in their land. [10]
\80:9\You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and
it sent out its branches over all the land. [11] \80:10\The mountains were
covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches. [12]
\80:11\It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River. [13]
\80:12\Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by
may take its fruit? [14] \80:13\It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods,
the beasts of the field get their food from it. [15] \80:14\Come back, O
God of armies: from heaven let your eyes be turned to this vine, and give
your mind to it, [16] \80:15\Even to the tree which was planted by your
right hand, and to the branch which you made strong for yourself. [17]
\80:16\It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the
wrath of your face. [18] \80:17\Let your hand be on the man of your right
hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself. [19] \80:18\So
will we not be turned back from you; keep us in life, and we will give
praise to your name. [20] \80:19\Take us back, O Lord God of armies; let us
see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.