Psalms 80:1-13 ▼

1 GIVE ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that sittest upon the cherubim, shine forth.

2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh show forth thy strength and come and save us.

3 Guide us again, O mighty God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

6 Thou hast made us a jest to our neighbors; and our enemies laugh among themselves.

7 Guide us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; thou hast cast out the heathen and planted it.

9 Thou didst prepare the ground and caused it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

10 The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the vine-shoots thereof were upon the cedars of God.

11 It sent out its roots unto the sea, and its branches to the rivers.

12 Why hast thou then broken down its hedges, so that all they who pass by the way tread over it?

13 The boar of the forest devours it, and the wild beasts of the field feed upon it.