Psalm 80

Shepherd and good prophet of Isra’el, listen!
You who lead Yosef like a flock,
You whose throne is on the k’ruvim,
shine out!
Before Efrayim, Binyamin and M’nasheh,
Rouse your great power; and come to save us from ourselves and all harm.
God, restore us!
Make Your face shine, and we will be saved.

ELOHIM,, God of armies, how long
will You be seething and angry with Your people’s prayers of forgiveness?
You have fed them wet sad tears as their soft bread
and made them drink those tears in abundance.
You cause our neighbors to fight over us,
and our enemies mock us.
God of armies, please fight for us, restore us!
Make Your face shine, and we will be saved.

You brought a purple grape vine out of Egypt,
you expelled the nations and planted it,
You cleared a growing space for it;
then it took root firmly and filled the  good land and we were prosperous.
The mountains were covered with its cooling shade,
the strong mighty red cedars with its firm branches;
It put out branches as far as we could see the vast sea
and shoots to the long and winding [Euphrates] River.

Why did you break down [the vineyard’s] vines growing up the wall,
so that all passing by can pluck [its fruit]?
The boar from the plush forest tears it apart with its gripping sharp teeth;
wild creatures from the fields feed hungrily on it.

ELOHIM,, God of armies, please come back!
Look down from the heights of heaven, see, and tend this breaking dry vine!
Protect what your all-knowing right hand planted,
the child you made strong for yourself.
It is burned by fierce hot fire, it is chopped and cut down;
they perish at your angry frown of rebuke.
Help your servants, the people at your right hand,
the people you made strong for yourself.

Then we won’t turn away from you —
If you revive us, we will call on your name.

ELOHIM, God of armies, restore us!
Make your face shine, and we will be saved.