80: 1 God implored to rescue his People from their Calamities. For the Chief Musician; set to ⁵¹² Shoshannim Eduth. A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; Thou that ⁵¹³sittest above the cherubim, shine forth.
⁵¹²That is, Lilies, a testimony.
⁵¹³Or, art enthroned between

80: 2 Before the face of Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy might, And come to save us.
80: 3 ⁵¹⁴Turn us again, O God; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
⁵¹⁴Or, Restore us, O God;

80: 4 O Jehovah God of hosts, How long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
80: 5 Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.
80: 6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors; And our enemies laugh among themselves.
80: 7 ⁵¹⁵Turn us again, O God of hosts; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
⁵¹⁵Or, Restore us, O God of hosts;

80: 8 Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt: Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it.
80: 9 Thou preparedst room before it, And it took deep root, and filled the land.
80: 10 The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, And ⁵¹⁶the boughs thereof were like ⁵¹⁷cedars of God.
⁵¹⁶Or, the cedars of God with the boughs thereof.
⁵¹⁷Or, goodly cedars.

80: 11 It sent out its branches unto the sea, And its shoots unto the River.
80: 12 Why hast thou broken down its walls, So that all they that pass by the way do pluck it?
80: 13 The boar out of the wood doth ravage it. And the wild beasts of the field feed on it.
80: 14 Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,
80: 15 And ⁵¹⁸the stock which thy right hand planted, And the ⁵¹⁹branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
⁵¹⁸Or, protect (or, maintain) that which etc.
⁵¹⁹Hb. son

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 shall we not go back from thee: Quicken thou us, and we will call upon thy name.
80: 19 ⁵²⁰Turn us again, O Jehovah God of hosts; Cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
⁵²⁰Or, Restore us, O Jehovah God of hosts;