For the end, for alternate [strains], a
testimony for Asaph, a Psalm concerning the Assyrian. 80:1 Attend, O
Shepherd of Israel, who guidest Joseph like a flock; thou who sittest upon
the cherubs, manifest thyself;
80:2 before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up thy power, and come to
deliver us.
80:3 Turn us, O Elohim, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be delivered.
80:4 O Yehovah Elohim of hosts, how long art thou angry with the prayer of thy
servant?
80:5 Thou wilt feed us with bread of tears; and wilt cause us to drink tears
by measure.
80:6 Thou has made us a strife to our neighbours; and our enemies have
mocked at us.
80:7 Turn us, O Yehovah Elohim of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall
be saved. Pause.
80:8 Thou hast transplanted a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the
heathen, and planted it.
80:9 Thou madest a way before it, and didst cause its roots to strike, and
the land was filled [with it].
80:10 Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots [equaled] the goodly
cedars.
80:11 It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river.
80:12 Wherefore hast thou broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the
way pluck it?
80:13 The boar out of the wood has laid it waste, and the wild beast has
devoured it.
80:14 O Elohim of hosts, turn, we pray thee: look on [us] from heaven, and
behold and visit this vine;
80:15 and restore that which thy right hand has planted: and look on the son
of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself.
80:16 [It is] burnt with fire and dug up: they shall perish at the rebuke of
thy presence.
80:17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, and upon the son of
man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself.
80:18 So will we not depart from thee: thou shalt quicken us, and we will
call upon thy name.
80:19 Turn us, O Yehovah Elohim of hosts, and make thy face to shine; and we shall
be saved. |
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim-Eduth,
A Psalm of Asaph. 80:1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest
Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
80:2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come
and save us.
80:3 Turn us again, O Elohim, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be
saved.
80:4 O Yehovah Elohim of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of
thy people?
80:5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to
drink in great measure.
80:6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh
among themselves.
80:7 Turn us again, O Elohim of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we
shall be saved.
80:8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen,
and planted it.
80:9 Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root,
and it filled the land.
80:10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof
were like the goodly cedars.
80:11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
80:12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass
by the way do pluck her?
80:13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the
field doth devour it.
80:14 Return, we beseech thee, O Elohim of hosts: look down from heaven, and
behold, and visit this vine;
80:15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch
that thou madest strong for thyself.
80:16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of
thy countenance.
80:17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man
whom thou madest strong for thyself.
80:18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon
thy name.
80:19 Turn us again, O Yehovah Elohim of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we
shall be saved. |