Psalms 80

Psalm 80

Prayer for Israel’s Restoration

1Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,[#Ps 23.1; 77.20; 99.1]

you who lead Joseph like a flock!

You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth

2before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh.[#Ps 35.23]

Stir up your might,

and come to save us!

3Restore us, O God;[#Num 6.25; Lam 5.21]

let your face shine, that we may be saved.

4O Lord God of hosts,[#Ps 85.5]

how long will you be angry with your people’s prayers?

5You have fed them with the bread of tears[#Ps 42.3; 102.9]

and given them tears to drink in full measure.

6You make us the scorn of our neighbors;[#Ps 44.13; 79.4; #80.6 Syr: Heb strife]

our enemies laugh among themselves.

7Restore us, O God of hosts;

let your face shine, that we may be saved.

8You brought a vine out of Egypt;[#Ps 44.2; Isa 5.1, 7; Jer 2.21; Ezek 15.6]

you drove out the nations and planted it.

9You cleared the ground for it;[#Hos 14.5]

it took deep root and filled the land.

10The mountains were covered with its shade,

the mighty cedars with its branches;

11it sent out its branches to the sea

and its shoots to the River.

12Why then have you broken down its walls,[#Ps 89.40; Nah 2.2]

so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?

13The boar from the forest ravages it,[#Jer 5.6]

and all that move in the field feed on it.

14Turn again, O God of hosts;[#Isa 63.15]

look down from heaven and see;

have regard for this vine,

15the stock that your right hand planted.[#80.15 Heb adds from 80.17 and upon the one whom you made strong for yourself]

16It has been burned with fire; it has been cut down;[#Ps 39.11; 76.6]

may they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.

17But let your hand be upon the one at your right hand,[#Ps 89.21]

the one whom you made strong for yourself.

18Then we will never turn back from you;[#Ps 71.20; Isa 50.5]

give us life, and we will call on your name.

19Restore us, O Lord God of hosts;

let your face shine, that we may be saved.

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