Psalms 80

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm of Asaph himself.	1 To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Testimony of Asaph. A Psalm. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou who leadest Joseph like a flock! Thou who art enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth
2 Exult before God our helper. Sing joyfully to the God of Jacob.	2 before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh! 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.	3 Restore us, O God; let thy face shine, that we may be saved!
4 Sound the trumpet at the new moon, on the noteworthy day of your solemnity,	4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry with thy people's prayers?
5 for it is a precept in Israel and a judgment for the God of Jacob.	5 Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in full 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.	6 Thou dost make us the scorn of our neighbors; and our enemies laugh among themselves.
7 He turned the burdens away from his back. His hands had been a slave to baskets.	7 Restore us, O God of hosts; let thy face shine, 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.	8 Thou didst bring a vine out of Egypt; thou didst drive out the nations and plant it.
9 My people, listen and I will call you to testify. If, O Israel, you will pay heed to me,	9 Thou didst clear the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land.
10 then there will be no new god among you, nor will you adore a foreign god.	10 The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with 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.	11 it sent out its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the River.
12 But my people did not hear my voice, and Israel was not attentive to me.	12 Why then hast thou broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way 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.	13 The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it.
14 If my people had heard me, if Israel had walked in my ways,	14 Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for 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.	15 the stock which thy right hand planted.
16 The enemies of the Lord have lied to him, and their time will come, in every age.	16 They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down; may they 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.	17 But let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself!
	18 Then we will never turn back from thee; give us life, and we will call on thy name!
	19 Restore us, O LORD God of hosts! let thy face shine, that we may be saved!