1To him that excelleth on Shoshannim Eduth. A Psalme committed to Asaph. Heare, O thou Shepheard of Israel, thou that leadest Ioseph like sheepe: shewe thy brightnes, thou that sittest betweene the Cherubims.
2Before Ephraim and Beniamin and Manasseh stirre vp thy strength, and come to helpe vs.
3Turne vs againe, O God, and cause thy face to shine that we may be saued.
4O Lord God of hostes, how long wilt thou be angrie against the prayer of thy people?
5Thou hast fedde them with the bread of teares, and giuen them teares to drinke with great measure.
6Thou hast made vs a strife vnto our neighbours, and our enemies laugh at vs among themselues.
7Turne vs againe, O God of hostes: cause thy face to shine, and we shalbe saued.
8Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
9Thou madest roume for it, and didest cause it to take roote, and it filled the land.
10The mountaines were couered with the shadowe of it, and the boughes thereof were like the goodly cedars.
11Shee stretched out her branches vnto the Sea, and her boughes vnto the Riuer.
12Why hast thou then broken downe her hedges, so that all they, which passe by the way, haue plucked her?
Psalms 80
Psalms 80:1-12