80:1 Hear us, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock you who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth
80:2 before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh. Awaken your might come and save us.
80:3 Restore us, O God make your face shine upon us, that we may be saved.
80:4 LORD God Almighty, how long will your anger smoulder against the prayers of your people?
80:5 You have fed them with the bread of tears you have made them drink tears by the bowlful.
80:6 You have made us a source of contention to our neighbours, and our enemies mock us.
80:7 Restore us, O God Almighty make your face shine upon us, that we may be saved.
80:8 You brought a vine out of Egypt you drove out the nations and planted it.
80:9 You cleared the ground for it, and it took root and filled the land.
80:10 The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches.
80:11 It sent out its boughs to the Sea, [Probably the Mediterranean] its shoots as far as the River. [That is, the Euphrates]
80:12 Why have you broken down its walls so that all who pass by pick its grapes?
80:13 Boars from the forest ravage it and the creatures of the field feed on it.
80:14 Return to us, O God Almighty! Look down from heaven and see! Watch over this vine,
80:15 the root your right hand has planted, the son [Or branch] you have raised up for yourself.
80:16 Your vine is cut down, it is burned with fire at your rebuke your people perish.
80:17 Let your hand rest on the man at your right hand, the son of man you have raised up for yourself.
80:18 Then we will not turn away from you revive us, and we will call on your name.
80:19 Restore us, O LORD God Almighty make your face shine upon us, that we may be saved. 134681 FOR THE DIRECTOR OF MUSIC. ACCORDING TO GITTITH. [TITLE: PROBABLY A MUSICAL TERM] OF ASAPH.