Psalm 80:1-19 - Restore Us, O God

¹ Shepherd of Israel, listen! The one who leads Joseph like a flock, the one enthroned on the cherubim, display your glory. ² Reveal your power before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, then come to our rescue. ³ God, restore us, show your favor and deliver us.

⁴ LORD God of the Heavenly Armies, when will your smoldering anger toward your people's prayers cease? ⁵ You fed them tears as their food, and caused them to drink a full measure of tears. ⁶ You have set us at strife against our neighbors and our enemies deride us. ⁷ God of the Heavenly Armies, restore us and show your favor, so we may be delivered.

⁸ You uprooted a vine from Egypt, and drove out nations to transplant it. ⁹ You cleared the ground so that its roots grew and filled the land. ¹⁰ Mountains were covered by its shadows, and the mighty cedars by its branches. ¹¹ Its branches spread out to the Mediterranean Sea and its shoots to the Euphrates River.

¹² Why did you break down its walls so that those who pass by pluck its fruits? ¹³ Wild boars of the forest gnaw at it, and creatures of the field feed on it. ¹⁴ God of the Heavenly Armies, return! Look down from heaven and see. Show care toward this vine. ¹⁵ The root that your right hand planted, the shoot that you tended for yourself, ¹⁶ was burned with fire, cut off, and destroyed on account of your rebuke. ¹⁷ May you support the man at your right hand; the son of man whom you have raised for yourself. ¹⁸ Then we will not turn away from you. Restore us, so we can call upon your name. ¹⁹ God of hosts, restore to us the light of your favor. Then we'll be delivered. For the Director: On the Gittith. By Asaph.