Psalms 80:1-9

¹For the leader. On shoshannim, eduth. Of Asaph, a psalm. Listen, Shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock of sheep; from your throne on the cherubs shine forth

²before Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin. Stir up your mighty power, come to our help.

³God, restore us: show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.

⁴O Lord of hosts, how long is your anger to smoke, despite the prayer of your people?

⁵You have fed them with bread of tears, you have made them drink tears by the measure.

⁶The scorn of our neighbours you make us, the laughing-stock of our foes.

⁷God of hosts, restore us: show us the light of your face, so we may be saved.

⁸A vine out of Egypt you brought; you did drive out the nations, and plant her;

⁹in the ground you did clear she struck root, and she filled all the land.