Psalms 80:1-13 ▼

1 For the end, for alternate strains , a testimony for Asaph, a Psalm concerning the Assyrian. Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, who guidest Joseph like a flock; thou who sittest upon the cherubs, manifest thyself;

2 before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up thy power, and come to deliver us.

3 Turn us, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be delivered.

4 O Lord God of hosts, how long art thou angry with the prayer of thy servant?

5 Thou wilt feed us with bread of tears; and wilt cause us to drink tears by measure.

6 Thou has made us a strife to our neighbours; and our enemies have mocked at us.

7 Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. Pause.

8 Thou hast transplanted a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

9 Thou madest a way before it, and didst cause its roots to strike, and the land was filled with it .

10 Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots equalled the goodly cedars.

11 It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river.

12 Wherefore hast thou broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it?

13 The boar out of the wood has laid it waste, and the wild beast has devoured it.