Psalms 80

DOUAI-RHEIMS	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Unto the end, for them that shall he changed, a testimony for Asaph, a psalm.	1 Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm of Asaph himself.
2 Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep. Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, shine forth	2 Exult before God our helper. Sing joyfully to the God of Jacob.
3 before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses. Stir up thy might, and come to save us.	3 Take up a psalm, and bring forth the timbrel: a pleasing Psalter with stringed instruments.
4 Convert us, O God: and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved.	4 Sound the trumpet at the new moon, on the noteworthy day of your solemnity,
5 O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant?	5 for it is a precept in Israel and a judgment for the God of Jacob.
6 How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us for our drink tears in measure?	6 He set it as a testimony with Joseph, when he went out of the land of Egypt. He heard a tongue that he did not know.
7 Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: and our enemies have scoffed at us.	7 He turned the burdens away from his back. His hands had been a slave to baskets.
8 O God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.	8 You called upon me in tribulation, and I freed you. I heard you within the hidden tempest. I tested you with waters of contradiction.
9 Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: thou hast cast cut the Gentiles and planted it.	9 My people, listen and I will call you to testify. If, O Israel, you will pay heed to me,
10 Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it filled the land.	10 then there will be no new god among you, nor will you adore a foreign god.
11 The shadow of it covered the hills: and the branches thereof the cedars of God.	11 For I am the Lord your God, who led you out of the land of Egypt. Widen your mouth, and I will fill it.
12 It stretched forth its branches unto the sea, and its boughs unto the river.	12 But my people did not hear my voice, and Israel was not attentive to me.
13 Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck it?	13 And so, I sent them away, according to the desires of their heart. They will go forth according to their own inventions.
14 The boar out of the wood hath laid it waste: and a singular wild beast hath devoured it.	14 If my people had heard me, if Israel had walked in my ways,
15 Turn again, O God of hosts, look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard:	15 I would have humbled their enemies, as if it were nothing, and I would have sent my hand upon those who troubled them.
16 And perfect the same which thy right hand hath planted: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.	16 The enemies of the Lord have lied to him, and their time will come, in every age.
17 Things set on fire and dug down shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.	17 And he fed them from the fat of the grain, and he saturated them with honey from the rock.
18 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.
19 And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: and we will call upon thy name.
20 O Lord God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.