Psalms 80
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1(80-1) For the Leader; upon Shoshannim. A testimony. A Psalm of Asaph. (80-2) Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; Thou that art enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.
1Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for Asaph himself.
2(80-3) Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up Thy might, and come to save us.
2Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the God of Jacob.
3(80-4) O God, restore us; and cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
3Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp.
4(80-5) O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt Thou be angry against the prayer of Thy people?
4Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your solemnity.
5(80-6) Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
5For it is a commandment in Israel, and a judgment to the God of Jacob.
6(80-7) Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours; and our enemies mock as they please.
6He ordained it for a testimony in Joseph, when he came out of the land of Egypt: he heard a tongue which he knew not.
7(80-8) O God of hosts, restore us; and cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
7He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in baskets.
8(80-9) Thou didst pluck up a vine out of Egypt; Thou didst drive out the nations, and didst plant it.
8Thou calledst upon me in affliction, and I delivered thee: I heard thee in the secret place of tempest: I proved thee at the waters of contradiction.
9(80-10) Thou didst clear a place before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land.
9Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me,
10(80-11) The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the mighty cedars with the boughs thereof.
10There shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange god.
11(80-12) She sent out her branches unto the sea, and her shoots unto the River.
11For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
12(80-13) Why hast Thou broken down her fences, so that all they that pass by the way do pluck her?
12But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me.
13(80-14) The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, that which moveth in the field feedeth on it.
13So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.
14(80-15) O God of hosts, return, we beseech Thee; look from heaven, and behold, and be mindful of this vine,
14If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:
15(80-16) And of the stock which Thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that Thou madest strong for Thyself.
15I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on them that troubled them.
16(80-17) It is burned with fire, it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of Thy countenance.
16The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be for ever.
17(80-18) Let Thy hand be upon the man of Thy right hand, upon the son of man whom Thou madest strong for Thyself.
17And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.
18(80-19) So shall we not turn back from Thee; quicken Thou us, and we will call upon Thy name.
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19(80-20) O LORD God of hosts, restore us; cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
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