Psalms 80

NEW JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 [For the choirmaster Tune: 'The decrees are lilies' Of Asaph Psalm] Shepherd of Israel, listen, you wholead Joseph like a flock, enthroned on the winged creatures, shine forth	1 Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm of Asaph himself.
2 over Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh; rouse your valour and come to our help.	2 Exult before God our helper. Sing joyfully to the God of Jacob.
3 God, bring us back, let your face shine on us and we shall be safe.	3 Take up a psalm, and bring forth the timbrel: a pleasing Psalter with stringed instruments.
4 Yahweh, God Sabaoth, how long wil you flare up at your people's prayer?	4 Sound the trumpet at the new moon, on the noteworthy day of your solemnity,
5 You have made tears their food, redoubled tears their drink.	5 for it is a precept in Israel and a judgment for the God of Jacob.
6 You let our neighbours quarrel over us, our enemies mock us.	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 God Sabaoth, bring us back, let your face shine on us and we shall be safe.	7 He turned the burdens away from his back. His hands had been a slave to baskets.
8 You brought a vine out of Egypt, to plant it you drove out nations;	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 cleared a space for it, it took root and fil ed the whole country.	9 My people, listen and I will call you to testify. If, O Israel, you will pay heed to me,
10 The mountains were covered with its shade, and the cedars of God with its branches,	10 then there will be no new god among you, nor will you adore a foreign god.
11 its boughs stretched as far as the sea, its shoots as far as 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 have you broken down its fences? Every passer-by plucks its grapes,	12 But my people did not hear my voice, and Israel was not attentive to me.
13 boars from the forest tear at it, wild beasts feed on 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 God Sabaoth, come back, we pray, look down from heaven and see, visit this vine;	14 If my people had heard me, if Israel had walked in my ways,
15 protect what your own hand has planted.	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 They have thrown it on the fire like dung, the frown of your rebuke wil destroy them.	16 The enemies of the Lord have lied to him, and their time will come, in every age.
17 May your hand protect those at your side, the child of Adam you have strengthened for yourself!	17 And he fed them from the fat of the grain, and he saturated them with honey from the rock.
18 Never again wil we turn away from you, give us life and we will cal upon your name.
19 God Sabaoth, bring us back, let your face shine on us and we shal be safe.