Psalm 80 (ASV) - [For the Chief Musician, set

Psa 80:1

For the Chief Musician, set to Shoshanim Eduth. A Psalm of Asaph.

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,

Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock;

Thou that sittest above the cherubim, shine forth.

Psa 80:2

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy might,

And come to save us.

Psa 80:3

Turn us again, O God;

And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

Psa 80:4

O Jehovah God of hosts,

How long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

Psa 80:5

Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears,

And given them tears to drink in large measure.

Psa 80:6

Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors;

And our enemies laugh among themselves.

Psa 80:7

Turn us again, O God of hosts;

And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

Psa 80:8

Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt:

Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it.

Psa 80:9

Thou preparedst room before it,

And it took deep root, and filled the land.

Psa 80:10

The mountains were covered with the shadow of it,

And the boughs thereof were like cedars of God.

Psa 80:11

It sent out its branches unto the sea,

And its shoots unto the River.

Psa 80:12

Why hast thou broken down its walls,

So that all they that pass by the way do pluck it?

Psa 80:13

The boar out of the wood doth ravage it,

And the wild beasts of the field feed on it.

Psa 80:14

Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts:

Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,

Psa 80:15

And the stock which thy right hand planted,

And the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.

Psa 80:16

It is burned with fire, it is cut down:

They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

Psa 80:17

Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand,

Upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.

Psa 80:18

So shall we not go back from thee:

Quicken thou us, and we will call upon thy name.

Psa 80:19

Turn us again, O Jehovah God of hosts;

Cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

Psalm 80 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

God implored to rescue his People from their Calamities.