Psalms 80

KING JAMES BIBLE	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.	1 Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm of Asaph himself.
2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.	2 Exult before God our helper. Sing joyfully to the God of Jacob.
3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.	3 Take up a psalm, and bring forth the timbrel: a pleasing Psalter with stringed instruments.
4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?	4 Sound the trumpet at the new moon, on the noteworthy day of your solemnity,
5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.	5 for it is a precept in Israel and a judgment for the God of Jacob.
6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.	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 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.	7 He turned the burdens away from his back. His hands had been a slave to baskets.
8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.	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 preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.	9 My people, listen and I will call you to testify. If, O Israel, you will pay heed to me,
10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.	10 then there will be no new god among you, nor will you adore a foreign god.
11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.	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 Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?	12 But my people did not hear my voice, and Israel was not attentive to me.
13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour 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 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;	14 If my people had heard me, if Israel had walked in my ways,
15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.	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 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.	16 The enemies of the Lord have lied to him, and their time will come, in every age.
17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.	17 And he fed them from the fat of the grain, and he saturated them with honey from the rock.
18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.