Psalm 76-80

Complete Jewish Bible

76 ⁽⁰⁾For the leader. With string music. A psalm of Asaf. A song:

²⁽¹⁾In Y’hudah God is known;
his name is great in Isra’el.
³⁽²⁾His tent is in Shalem,
his place is in Tziyon.
⁴⁽³⁾There he broke the flashing arrows,
the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. (Selah)

⁵⁽⁴⁾You are glorious, majestic,
more so than mountains of prey.
⁶⁽⁵⁾The bravest have been stripped of their spoil
and now are sleeping their final sleep;
not one of these courageous men
finds strength to raise his hands.
⁷⁽⁶⁾At your rebuke, God of Ya‘akov,
riders and horses lie stunned.

⁸⁽⁷⁾You are fearsome! When once you are angry,
who can stand in your presence?
⁹⁽⁸⁾You pronounce sentence from heaven;
the earth grows silent with fear
¹⁰⁽⁹⁾when God arises to judge,
to save all the humble of the earth. (Selah)

¹¹⁽¹⁰⁾Human wrath serves only to praise you;
what remains of this wrath you wear as an ornament.
¹²⁽¹¹⁾Make vows to Adonai your God, and keep them;
all who are around him must bring presents to the one who should be feared.
¹³⁽¹²⁾He curbs the spirit of princes;
he is fearsome to the kings of the earth.

77 ⁽⁰⁾For the leader. For Y’dutun. A psalm of Asaf:

²⁽¹⁾I cry aloud to God,
aloud to God; and he hears me.
³⁽²⁾On the day of my distress I am seeking Adonai;
my hands are lifted up;
my tears flow all night without ceasing;
my heart refuses comfort.
⁴⁽³⁾When remembering God, I moan;
when I ponder, my spirit fails. (Selah)

⁵⁽⁴⁾You hold my eyelids [and keep me from sleeping];
I am too troubled to speak.
⁶⁽⁵⁾I think about the days of old,
the years of long ago;
⁷⁽⁶⁾in the night I remember my song,
I commune with myself, my spirit inquires:
⁸⁽⁷⁾“Will Adonai reject forever?
will he never show his favor again?
⁹⁽⁸⁾Has his grace permanently disappeared?
Is his word to all generations done away?
¹⁰⁽⁹⁾Has God forgotten to be compassionate?
Has he in anger withheld his mercy?” (Selah)
¹¹⁽¹⁰⁾Then I add, “That’s my weakness —
[supposing] the Most High’s right hand could change.”

¹²⁽¹¹⁾So I will remind myself of Yah’s doings;
yes, I will remember your wonders of old.
¹³⁽¹²⁾I will meditate on your work
and think about what you have done.

¹⁴⁽¹³⁾God, your way is in holiness.
What god is as great as God?

¹⁵⁽¹⁴⁾You are the God who does wonders,
you revealed your strength to the peoples.
¹⁶⁽¹⁵⁾With your arm you redeemed your people,
the descendants of Ya‘akov and Yosef. (Selah)

¹⁷⁽¹⁶⁾The water saw you, God;
the water saw you and writhed in anguish,
agitated to its depths.
¹⁸⁽¹⁷⁾The clouds poured water, the skies thundered,
and your arrows flashed here and there.
¹⁹⁽¹⁸⁾The sound of your thunder was in the whirlwind,
the lightning flashes lit up the world,
the earth trembled and shook.

²⁰⁽¹⁹⁾Your way went through the sea,
your path through the turbulent waters;
but your footsteps could not be traced.
²¹⁽²⁰⁾You led your people like a flock
under the care of Moshe and Aharon.
78 ⁽⁰⁾A maskil of Asaf:

⁽¹⁾Listen, my people, to my teaching;
turn your ears to the words from my mouth.
²I will speak to you in parables
and explain mysteries from days of old.

³The things which we have heard and known,
and which our fathers told us
⁴we will not hide from their descendants;
we will tell the generation to come
the praises of Adonai and his strength,
the wonders that he has performed.

⁵He raised up a testimony in Ya‘akov
and established a Torah in Isra’el.
He commanded our ancestors
to make this known to their children,
⁶so that the next generation would know it,
the children not yet born,
who would themselves arise
and tell their own children,
⁷who could then put their confidence in God,
not forgetting God’s deeds,
but obeying his mitzvot.
⁸Then they would not be like their ancestors,
a stubborn, rebellious generation,
a generation with unprepared hearts,
with spirits unfaithful to God.

⁹The people of Efrayim, though armed with bows and arrows,
turned their backs on the day of battle.
¹⁰They did not keep the covenant of God
and refused to live by his Torah.
¹¹They forgot what he had done,
his wonders which he had shown them.

¹²He had done wonderful things
in the presence of their ancestors
in the land of Egypt,
in the region of Tzo‘an.
¹³He split the sea and made them pass through,
he made the waters stand up like a wall.
¹⁴He also led them by day with a cloud
and all night long with light from a fire.
¹⁵He broke apart the rocks in the desert
and let them drink as if from boundless depths;
¹⁶yes, he brought streams out of the rock,
making the water flow down like rivers.

¹⁷Yet they sinned still more against him,
rebelling in the wilderness against the Most High;
¹⁸in their hearts they tested God
by demanding food that would satisfy their cravings.
¹⁹Yes, they spoke against God by asking,
“Can God spread a table in the desert?
²⁰True, he struck the rock, and water gushed out,
until the vadis overflowed;
but what about bread? Can he give that?
Can he provide meat for his people?”

²¹Therefore, when Adonai heard, he was angry;
fire blazed up against Ya‘akov;
his anger mounted against Isra’el;
²²because they had no faith in God,
no trust in his power to save.

²³So he commanded the skies above
and opened the doors of heaven.
²⁴He rained down man on them as food;
he gave them grain from heaven —
²⁵mortals ate the bread of angels;
he provided for them to the full.

²⁶He stirred up the east wind in heaven,
brought on the south wind by his power,
²⁷and rained down meat on them like dust,
birds flying thick as the sand on the seashore.
²⁸He let them fall in the middle of their camp,
all around their tents.
²⁹So they ate till they were satisfied;
he gave them what they craved.
³⁰They were still fulfilling their craving,
the food was still in their mouths,
³¹when the anger of God rose up against them
and slaughtered their strongest men,
laying low the young men of Isra’el.

³²Still, they kept on sinning
and put no faith in his wonders.
³³Therefore, he ended their days in futility
and their years in terror.
³⁴When he brought death among them, they would seek him;
they would repent and seek God eagerly,
³⁵remembering that God was their Rock,
El ‘Elyon their Redeemer.

³⁶But they tried to deceive him with their words,
they lied to him with their tongues;
³⁷for their hearts were not right with him,
and they were unfaithful to his covenant.
³⁸Yet he, because he is full of compassion,
forgave their sin and did not destroy;
many times he turned away his anger
and didn’t rouse all his wrath.
³⁹So he remembered that they were but flesh,
a wind that blows past and does not return.

⁴⁰How often they rebelled against him in the desert
and grieved him in the wastelands!
⁴¹Repeatedly they challenged God
and pained the Holy One of Isra’el.
⁴²They didn’t remember how he used his hand
on the day he redeemed them from their enemy,
⁴³how he displayed his signs in Egypt,
his wonders in the region of Tzo‘an.

⁴⁴He turned their rivers into blood,
so they couldn’t drink from their streams.
⁴⁵He sent swarms of flies, which devoured them,
and frogs, which destroyed them.
⁴⁶He gave their harvest to shearer-worms,
the fruit of their labor to locusts.
⁴⁷He destroyed their vineyards with hail
and their sycamore-figs with frost.
⁴⁸Their cattle too he gave over to the hail
and their flocks to lightning bolts.

⁴⁹He sent over them his fierce anger,
fury, indignation and trouble,
with a company of destroying angels
⁵⁰to clear a path for his wrath.
He did not spare them from death,
but gave them over to the plague,
⁵¹striking all the firstborn in Egypt,
the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of Ham.

⁵²But his own people he led out like sheep,
guiding them like a flock in the desert.
⁵³He led them safely, and they weren’t afraid,
even when the sea overwhelmed their foes.
⁵⁴He brought them to his holy land,
to the hill-country won by his right hand.
⁵⁵He expelled nations before them,
apportioned them property to inherit
and made Isra’el’s tribes live in their tents.

⁵⁶Yet they tested El ‘Elyon
and rebelled against him,
refusing to obey his instructions.
⁵⁷They turned away and were faithless, like their fathers;
they were unreliable, like a bow without tension.
⁵⁸They provoked him with their high places
and made him jealous with their idols.

⁵⁹God heard, and he was angry;
he came to detest Isra’el completely.
⁶⁰He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh,
the tent he had made where he could live among people.
⁶¹He gave his strength into exile,
his pride to the power of the foe.
⁶²He gave his people over to the sword
and grew angry with his own heritage.
⁶³Fire consumed their young men,
their virgins had no wedding-song,
⁶⁴their cohanim fell by the sword,
and their widows could not weep.

⁶⁵Then Adonai awoke, as if from sleep,
like a warrior shouting for joy from wine.
⁶⁶He struck his foes, driving them back
and putting them to perpetual shame.

⁶⁷Rejecting the tents of Yosef
and passing over the tribe of Efrayim,
⁶⁸he chose the tribe of Y’hudah,
Mount Tziyon, which he loved.
⁶⁹He built his sanctuary like the heights;
like the earth, he made it to last forever.

⁷⁰He chose David to be his servant,
taking him from the sheep-yards;
⁷¹from tending nursing ewes he brought him
to shepherd Ya‘akov his people,
Isra’el his heritage.
⁷²With upright heart he shepherded them
and guided them with skillful hands.
79 ⁽⁰⁾A psalm of Asaf:

⁽¹⁾God, the pagans have entered your heritage.
They have defiled your holy temple
and turned Yerushalayim into rubble.
²They have given the corpses of your servants
as food for the birds in the air,
yes, the flesh of those faithful to you
for the wild animals of the earth.
³All around Yerushalayim
they have shed their blood like water,
and no one is left to bury them.
⁴We suffer the taunts of our neighbors,
we are mocked and scorned by those around us.

⁵How long, Adonai?
Will you be angry forever?
How long will your jealousy burn like fire?

⁶Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you,
on the kingdoms that don’t call out your name;
⁷for they have devoured Ya‘akov
and left his home a waste.

⁸Don’t count past iniquities against us,
but let your compassion come quickly to meet us,
for we have been brought very low.
⁹Help us, God of our salvation,
for the sake of the glory of your name.
Deliver us, forgive our sins,
for your name’s sake.
¹⁰Why should the nations ask,
“Where is their God?”

Let the vengeance taken on your servants’ shed blood
be known among the nations before our eyes.
¹¹Let the groaning of the captives come before you;
by your great strength save those condemned to death.

¹²Repay our neighbors sevenfold where they can feel it
for the insults they inflicted on you, Adonai.

¹³Then we, your people and the flock in your pasture,
will give you thanks forever.
From generation to generation
we will proclaim your praise.
80 ⁽⁰⁾For the leader. Set to “Lilies.” A testimony. A psalm of Asaf:

²⁽¹⁾Shepherd of Isra’el, listen!
You who lead Yosef like a flock,
you whose throne is on the k’ruvim,
shine out!
³⁽²⁾Before Efrayim, Binyamin and M’nasheh,
rouse your power; and come to save us.
⁴⁽³⁾God, restore us!
Make your face shine, and we will be saved.

⁵⁽⁴⁾Adonai, God of armies, how long
will you be angry with your people’s prayers?
⁶⁽⁵⁾You have fed them tears as their bread
and made them drink tears in abundance.
⁷⁽⁶⁾You make our neighbors fight over us,
and our enemies mock us.
⁸⁽⁷⁾God of armies, restore us!
Make your face shine, and we will be saved.

⁹⁽⁸⁾You brought a vine out of Egypt,
you expelled the nations and planted it,
¹⁰⁽⁹⁾you cleared a space for it;
then it took root firmly and filled the land.
¹¹⁽¹⁰⁾The mountains were covered with its shade,
the mighty cedars with its branches;
¹²⁽¹¹⁾It put out branches as far as the sea
and shoots to the [Euphrates] River.

¹³⁽¹²⁾Why did you break down [the vineyard’s] wall,
so that all passing by can pluck [its fruit]?
¹⁴⁽¹³⁾The boar from the forest tears it apart;
wild creatures from the fields feed on it.

¹⁵⁽¹⁴⁾God of armies, please come back!
Look from heaven, see, and tend this vine!
¹⁶⁽¹⁵⁾Protect what your right hand planted,
the son you made strong for yourself.
¹⁷⁽¹⁶⁾It is burned by fire, it is cut down;
they perish at your frown of rebuke.
¹⁸⁽¹⁷⁾Help the man at your right hand,
the son of man you made strong for yourself.

¹⁹⁽¹⁸⁾Then we won’t turn away from you —
if you revive us, we will call on your name.
²⁰⁽¹⁹⁾Adonai, God of armies, restore us!
Make your face shine, and we will be saved.

Tehillim 76-80

Orthodox Jewish Bible

76 (For the one directing. On stringed instruments. Mizmor of Asaph. Shir.) In Yehudah is Elohim known; Shmo is gadol in Yisroel.

²⁽³⁾In Shalem [i.e., Yerushalayim] also is His Sukkah, and His Ma’on (dwelling place) in Tziyon [see Yochanan chp 14 OJBC].

³⁽⁴⁾There He broke the flashing arrows, the mogen, and the cherev, and the milchamah. Selah.

⁴⁽⁵⁾Thou art more glorious and adir (majestic) than the mountains of prey.

⁵⁽⁶⁾The stouthearted are plundered; now their last sleep they sleep; and none of the anshei chayil can find their hands.

⁶⁽⁷⁾At Thy rebuke, O Elohei Ya’akov, both the merkavah and sus are cast into a dead sleep.

⁷⁽⁸⁾Thou, even Thou, art to be feared; and who may stand in Thy sight when once Thou art angry?

⁸⁽⁹⁾Thou didst pronounce din (sentence, judgment) from Shomayim; Eretz feared, and was still,

⁹⁽¹⁰⁾When Elohim arose to mishpat, to save all the meek of Eretz. Selah.

¹⁰⁽¹¹⁾Surely the chamat adam (the wrath of man) shall praise Thee; the she’erit (remnant, survivor) of wrath shalt Thou restrain [from doing evil].

¹¹⁽¹²⁾Make neder (vow), and pay unto Hashem Eloheichem; let all that be around Him bring gifts unto Him that ought to be feared.

¹²⁽¹³⁾He shall cut short the ruach of negidim (nobles); He is fearsome to the Malkhei-Aretz (Kings of the Earth).

77 (For the one directing. Set to Yedutun. Mizmor of Asaph) I cried unto Elohim with my voice, even unto Elohim with my voice; and He gave ear unto me.

²⁽³⁾In my yom tzoros (day of trouble) I sought Adonoi; my hand was stretched up in the lailah, and ceased not; my nefesh refused to be comforted.

³⁽⁴⁾I remembered Elohim, and groaned; I pondered, and my ruach was overwhelmed. Selah.

⁴⁽⁵⁾Thou holdest mine eyelids awake; I am so troubled that lo adaber (I cannot speak).

⁵⁽⁶⁾I have considered the yamim mikedem (days of old), the shnot olamim (years long past).

⁶⁽⁷⁾I called to remembrance my neginah balailah (song in the night); I communed with mine own lev; and my ruach pondered with diligent search.

⁷⁽⁸⁾Will Adonoi cast off forever? And will He show favor no more?

⁸⁽⁹⁾Is His chesed passed away forever? Is His promise at an end l’dor vador?

⁹⁽¹⁰⁾Hath El (G-d) forgotten to be channot (gracious)? Hath He in anger shut up His rachamim (mercy)? Selah.

¹⁰⁽¹¹⁾And I said, This is my affliction; but I will remember the shanot of the Yemin Elyon (Right Hand of the Most High).

¹¹⁽¹²⁾I will remember the deeds of Hashem; surely I will remember Thy wonders mikedem (of old, of long ago).

¹²⁽¹³⁾I will meditate also on kol po’al (all work) of Thine, and consider Thy mighty deeds.

¹³⁽¹⁴⁾Thy Derech, O Elohim, is bakodesh (in holiness). Who is so gadol El as Elohim?

¹⁴⁽¹⁵⁾Thou art HaEl oseh peleh (the G-d that doest wonders); Thou hast declared Thy oz (strength) among the amim (peoples, nations).

¹⁵⁽¹⁶⁾Thou hast with Thine zero’a (strong arm) redeemed Thy people, the Bnei Ya’akov and Yosef. Selah.

¹⁶⁽¹⁷⁾The mayim saw Thee, O Elohim, the mayim saw Thee; they were afraid; the tehomot (ocean depths) also writhed.

¹⁷⁽¹⁸⁾The clouds poured down mayim; the skies resounded in thunder; Thine khitzim (arrows, i.e., lightning bolts) also went forth

¹⁸⁽¹⁹⁾The voice of Thy thunder was in the galgal (whirlwind); the lightning lit up the tevel (world); ha’aretz trembled and quaked.

¹⁹⁽²⁰⁾Thy derech is in the yam (sea), and Thy path is through the mayim rabbim (great waters), and Thy footsteps are not to be discerned.

²⁰⁽²¹⁾Thou didst lead Thy people like a tzon (flock) by the yad Moshe and Aharon.

78 (Maskil of Asaph.) Give ear, O my people, to my torah; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

²I will open my mouth in a mashal; I will utter dark sayings from of old,

³Which we have heard and known, and Avoteinu have told us.

⁴We will not hide them from their banim, recounting to the dor acharon the tehillot Hashem, and His power, and His nifla’ot (wonderful works) that He hath done.

⁵For He established edut in Ya’akov, set torah in Yisroel, which He commanded Avoteinu, that they should make them known to their banim;

⁶So that the dor acharon might know them, even the banim which should be born; who should arise and recount them to their banim;

⁷That they might put their confidence in Elohim, and not forget the ma’allei El (works of G-d), but keep His mitzvot;

⁸And might not be as their Avot, a dor sorer u’moreh (stubborn and rebellious generation); a generation that set not its lev aright, and whose ruach was not faithful to G-d.

⁹The Bnei Ephrayim, being armed, and shooting keshet (the bows), turned back in the day of battle.

¹⁰They kept not the Brit Elohim, and refused to walk in His torah;

¹¹And forgot His works, and His nifla’ot (wonders) that He had shown them.

¹²Peleh (marvellous things) did He in the sight of their avot, in Eretz Mitzrayim, in the sadeh (area) of Tzoan.

¹³He divided the yam, and caused them to pass through; and He made the mayim to stand like a heap.

¹⁴In the daytime also He led them with an anan, and all the lailah with an ohr of eish.

¹⁵He split the rocks in the midbar, and gave them drink as out of the great tehomot.

¹⁶He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused mayim to run down like rivers.

¹⁷And they sinned yet more against Him by provoking Elyon in the wilderness.

¹⁸And they tested G-d by their lev by demanding ochel for their lust.

¹⁹And they spoke against Elohim; they said, Can G-d spread a shulchan in the midbar?

²⁰Behold, He struck the Tzur, that the mayim gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can He give lechem also? Can He provide meat for His people?

²¹Therefore Hashem heard this, and was in wrath; so an eish was kindled against Ya’akov, and anger also came up against Yisroel;

²²Because they believed not in Elohim, and trusted not in His Yeshuah (salvation);

²³Though He had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the daletei Shomayim (doors of heaven),

²⁴And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the bread of Shomayim [see Yn 6:31 OJBC].

²⁵Ish did eat the bread of angels; He sent them lechem to the full.

²⁶He caused an east wind to blow from Shomayim; and by His oz He brought in the south wind.

²⁷He rained meat also upon them like aphar, and winged fowls like the chol (sand) of the sea;

²⁸And He let it fall in the midst of their machaneh, all around their mishkenot (habitations).

²⁹So they did eat, and were well filled; for He gave them their own ta’avah (evil desire).

³⁰They were not estranged from their ta’avah. But while their food was yet in their mouths,

³¹The Af Elohim (wrath of G-d) came upon them, and slaughtered the stoutest of them, and cut down the bochurim of Yisroel.

³²For all this they sinned still, and believed not in His nifla’ot (wondrous works).

³³Therefore their yamim did He consume in hevel (futility, vanity) and their shanim in terror.

³⁴When He slaughtered them, then they sought Him; and they returned and inquired diligently after G-d.

³⁵And they remembered that Elohim was their Tzur, and the El Elyon their Go’el (Redeemer).

³⁶Nevertheless they did flatter Him with their mouth, and they lied unto Him with their leshon.

³⁷For their lev was not right with Him, neither were they faithful in His Brit.

³⁸But He, being full of compassion, made kapporah for their avon and destroyed them not; and He many times turned His anger away, and did not stir up all His wrath.

³⁹For He remembered that they were but basar; a ruach (wind) that passeth away, and cometh not again.

⁴⁰How oft did they provoke Him in the midbar, and grieve Him in the desert!

⁴¹Again and again they turned back and tested G-d, and imposed limits on Kadosh Yisroel.

⁴²They remembered not His Yad (Hand, Power), nor the yom (day) when He redeemed them from the enemy.

⁴³How He had wrought His otot in Mitzrayim, and His mofetim in the area of Tzoan.

⁴⁴And had turned their rivers into dahm; and their streams, that they could not drink.

⁴⁵He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them; and tzfarde’a (frogs), which destroyed them.

⁴⁶He gave also their crop unto the grasshopper, and their produce unto the arbeh (locust).

⁴⁷He destroyed their gefen with barad (hail), and their fig trees with frost.

⁴⁸He gave up their cattle also to the barad (hail), and their livestock herds to hot thunderbolts.

⁴⁹He cast upon them His charon af, evrah (wrath), and za’am (indignation), and tzarah, by sending malachim ra’im among them.

⁵⁰He made a way for His anger; He spared not their nefesh from mavet (death), but gave their beasts over to the dever (plague);

⁵¹And struck all the bechor in Mitzrayim; the reshit (first fruit) of their strength in the ohalim of Cham;

⁵²But made His own people to go forth like tzon, and guided them in the midbar like an eder (flock).

⁵³And He led them in safety, so that they had no terror; but the yam overwhelmed their oyevim.

⁵⁴And He brought them to His gevul kadosh (His holy border), even to this Har, which His Yamin had purchased.

⁵⁵He cast out the Goyim also before them, and divided by measure a nachalah for them, and made the Shivtei Yisroel to dwell in their ohalim.

⁵⁶Yet they tested and provoked Elohim Elyon, and were not shomer over His edot;

⁵⁷But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their avot; they turned like a treacherous keshet.

⁵⁸For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their pesilim.

⁵⁹When Elohim heard this, He was in wrath, and greatly abhorred Yisroel;

⁶⁰So that He forsook the Mishkan of Shiloh, the Ohel which He placed among adam (men);

⁶¹And delivered His oz (strength) into captivity, and His tiferet into the hand of the enemy.

⁶²He gave His people over also unto the cherev; and was in wrath with His nachalah.

⁶³The eish consumed their bochurim; and their betulot had no wedding celebration.

⁶⁴Their kohanim fell by the cherev; and their almanot made no lamentation.

⁶⁵Then Adonoi awaked as one from sleep, and like a gibbor that shouteth from yayin.

⁶⁶And He struck down His enemies behind; He put them to cherpat olam (perpetual reproach).

⁶⁷Moreover He rejected the Ohel Yosef, and chose not the Shevet Ephrayim;

⁶⁸But chose the Shevet Yehudah, Har Tziyon which He loved.

⁶⁹And He built His Mikdash like heavenly heights, like Eretz which He hath established l’olam.

⁷⁰He chose Dovid also His Eved, and took him from the mikhle’ot tzon (sheepfolds);

⁷¹From following the nursing ewes He brought him to shepherd Ya’akov His people, and Yisroel His nachalah.

⁷²So he shepherded them according to the tohm (integrity, guilelessness) of his lev; and led them by the skillfulness of his hands.

79 (A Mizmor. Of Asaph) O Elohim, the Goyim are come into Thine Nachalah; Thy Heikhal Kodesh have they defiled; they have reduced Yerushalayim to rubble.

²The dead bodies of Thy avadim have they given to be food unto the oph HaShomayim, the basar of Thy Chasidim, unto the beasts of the earth.

³Their shefach dahm (shedding of blood) is like mayim all around Yerushalayim; and there is none to bury them.

⁴We are become a reproach to our shekhenim (neighbors), a scorn and derision to them that are around us.

⁵How long, Hashem? Wilt Thou be angry lanetzach (forever)? Shall Thy kina (jealousy) burn like eish?

⁶Pour out Thy wrath upon the Goyim that have no da’as of Thee, and upon the mamlachot that have not called upon Thy Shem.

⁷For they have devoured Ya’akov, and laid waste his naveh (home).

⁸O remember not against us avonot rishonim (former iniquities); let Thy rachamim speedily come to us; for we are brought very low.

⁹Help us, O Elohei Yisheinu, (G-d of our salvation), for the kavod of Thy Shem; and deliver us, and make kapporah for our sins, for Thy Name’s sake.

¹⁰Why should the Goyim say, Where is Eloheihem? Let there be known among the Goyim in our sight, vengeance for the shefach dahm of Thy avadim.

¹¹Let the groaning of the asir (prisoner) come before Thee; according to the greatness of Thy Zero’a preserve Thou those that are Bnei Temutah (sons of death, i.e., appointed to die, doomed to die);

¹²And repay unto our shekhenim (neighbors) sevenfold into their kheyk their reproach, wherewith they have reproached Thee, Adonoi.

¹³So we Thy people and tzon of Thy pasture will give Thee thanks l’olahm (forever); we will show forth Thy praise l’dor vador.

80 (For the one directing. Set to The Lilies of the Edut. Of Asaph. Mizmor.) Give ear, O Ro’eh Yisroel, Thou that leadest Yosef like a tzon; Thou that art enthroned between the Keruvim, shine forth.

²⁽³⁾Before Ephrayim and Binyamin and Menasheh, Stir up Thy gevurah (might), and come and save us.

³⁽⁴⁾Turn us again, O Elohim, and cause Thy face to shine that we may be saved.

⁴⁽⁵⁾Hashem Elohim Tzva’os, ad mosai (how long) wilt Thou be angry against the tefillat amecha (prayer of Thy people)?

⁵⁽⁶⁾Thou feedest them with the lechem dimah (bread of tears); and givest them dima’ot (tears) to drink in great measure.

⁶⁽⁷⁾Thou makest us a madon (strife, contention) unto shcheneinu (our neighbors), and oyveinu (our enemies) mock us.

⁷⁽⁸⁾Turn us again, O Elohim Tzva’os, and cause Thy face to shine that we may be saved.

⁸⁽⁹⁾Thou hast brought a gefen (vine) out of Mitzrayim; Thou hast drove out Goyim, and planted it.

⁹⁽¹⁰⁾Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the eretz.

¹⁰⁽¹¹⁾The harim were covered with the tzel (shadow) of it, and the branches thereof were like the mighty cedars.

¹¹⁽¹²⁾It sent out its branches unto the yam (sea, i.e., Mediterranean Sea) and its shoots unto the Nahar (river, i.e., the Euphrates).

¹²⁽¹³⁾Lammah (why) hast Thou then broken down her walls, so that all they which pass by the derech do pluck her?

¹³⁽¹⁴⁾The chazir (wild boar) out of the forest doth lay it waste, and the beasts of the sadeh doth devour it.

¹⁴⁽¹⁵⁾Shuv nah (return now), we beseech Thee, O Elohim Tzva’os; look down from Shomayim, and behold, and visit gefen zot (this vine);

¹⁵⁽¹⁶⁾And the stock which Thy Yamin (Right Hand) hath planted, and the Ben that Thou madest strong for Thyself.

¹⁶⁽¹⁷⁾It is burned with eish, it is cut down; they perish at the ge’arah (rebuke) of Thy countenance.

¹⁷⁽¹⁸⁾Let Thy Yad be upon the Ish Yeminecha (the Man of your Right Hand), upon the Ben Adam whom Thou madest strong for Thyself [cf Psalm 110:1; Dan 7:13].

¹⁸⁽¹⁹⁾So will we never turn back from Thee; revive us, and we will call upon Thy Shem.

¹⁹Turn us again, Hashem Elohim Tzva’os; cause Thy face to shine that we may be saved.

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