Psalms 80

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 For the leader; according to "Lilies." Eduth. A psalm of Asaph.	1 Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm of Asaph himself.
2 Shepherd of Israel, listen, guide of the flock of Joseph! From your throne upon the cherubim reveal yourself	2 Exult before God our helper. Sing joyfully to the God of Jacob.
3 to Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Stir up your power, come to save us.	3 Take up a psalm, and bring forth the timbrel: a pleasing Psalter with stringed instruments.
4 O LORD of hosts, restore us; Let your face shine upon us, that we may be saved.	4 Sound the trumpet at the new moon, on the noteworthy day of your solemnity,
5 LORD of hosts, how long will you burn with anger while your people pray?	5 for it is a precept in Israel and a judgment for the God of Jacob.
6 You have fed them the bread of tears, made them drink tears in abundance.	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 You have left us to be fought over by our neighbors; our enemies deride us.	7 He turned the burdens away from his back. His hands had been a slave to baskets.
8 O LORD of hosts, restore us; let your face shine upon us, that we may 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 You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove away the nations and planted it.	9 My people, listen and I will call you to testify. If, O Israel, you will pay heed to me,
10 You cleared the ground; it took root and filled the land.	10 then there will be no new god among you, nor will you adore a foreign god.
11 The mountains were covered by its shadow, the cedars of God by its branches.	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 sent out boughs as far as the sea, shoots as far as the river.	12 But my people did not hear my voice, and Israel was not attentive to me.
13 Why have you broken down the walls, so that all who pass by pluck its fruit?	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 from the forest strips the vine; the beast of the field feeds upon it.	14 If my people had heard me, if Israel had walked in my ways,
15 Turn again, LORD of hosts; look down from heaven and see; Attend to this vine,	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 the shoot your right hand has planted.	16 The enemies of the Lord have lied to him, and their time will come, in every age.
17 Those who would burn or cut it down-- may they perish at your rebuke.	17 And he fed them from the fat of the grain, and he saturated them with honey from the rock.
18 May your help be with the man at your right hand, with the one whom you once made strong.
19 Then we will not withdraw from you; revive us, and we will call on your name.
20 LORD of hosts, restore us; let your face shine upon us, that we may be saved.