PSALMS 80:1-13

¹For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim Eduth. A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that sittest upon the cherubim, shine forth.

²Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy might, and come to save us.

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

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

⁵Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

⁶Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

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

⁸Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt: thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it.

⁹Thou preparedst room before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land.

¹⁰The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like cedars of God.

¹¹She sent out her branches unto the sea, and her shoots unto the River.

¹²Why hast thou broken down her fences, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

¹³The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, and the wild beasts of the field feed on it.