80. Israel's Plea for God's Mercy
Psa 80:1
<To the chief Musician upon Shoshannimeduth, A Psalm of Asaph.> Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.Psa 80:2
Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.Psa 80:3
Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.Psa 80:4
O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?Psa 80:5
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.Psa 80:6
Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.Psa 80:7
Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.Psa 80:8
Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.Psa 80:9
Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.Psa 80:10
The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.Psa 80:11
She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.Psa 80:12
Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?Psa 80:13
The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.Psa 80:14
Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;Psa 80:15
And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.Psa 80:16
It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.Psa 80:17
Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.Psa 80:18
So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.Psa 80:19
Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.