Psalm

80 O Shepherd of Israel, do give ear,+

You who are conducting Joseph just like a flock.+

O you who are sitting upon the cherubs,+ do beam forth.+

 2 Before Eʹphra·im and Benjamin and Ma·nasʹseh do rouse up your mightiness,+

And do come to our salvation.+

 3 O God, bring us back;+

And light up your face, that we may be saved.+

 5 You have made them eat the bread of tears,+

And you keep making them drink tears upon tears in [great] measure.*+

 6 You set us for strife to our neighbors,+

And our very enemies keep deriding as they please.+

 7 O God of armies,* bring us back;+

And light up your face, that we may be saved.+

 8 You proceeded to make a vine depart from Egypt.+

You kept driving out the nations, that you might plant it.+

10 The mountains were covered with its shadow,

And the cedars of God with its boughs.+

11 It gradually sent forth its boughs as far as the sea,+

And to the River* its twigs.+

12 Why have you broken down its stone walls,+

And [why] have all those passing by on the road plucked at it?+

13 A boar out of the woods* keeps eating it away,+

And the animal throngs of the open field keep feeding upon it.+

14 O God of armies,* return,* please;+

Look down from heaven and see and take care of this vine,+

15 And the stock* that your right hand has planted,+

And [look] upon the son* whom you have made strong for yourself.+

16 It is burned with fire, cut off.+

From the rebuke of your face they perish.+

17 Let your hand prove to be upon the man* of your right hand,+

Upon the son of mankind* whom you have made strong for yourself,+

18 And we shall not turn back from you.+

May you preserve us alive, that we may call upon your own name.+

19 O Jehovah God of armies,* bring us back;+

Light up your face, that we may be saved.+