Psalm 80

Revised Standard Version

³ Restore us, O God;
    let thy face shine, that we may be saved!

⁴ O Lord God of hosts,
    how long wilt thou be angry with thy people’s prayers?
⁵ Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears,
    and given them tears to drink in full measure.
⁶ Thou dost make us the scorn^[a] of our neighbors;
    and our enemies laugh among themselves.

⁷ Restore us, O God of hosts;
    let thy face shine, that we may be saved!

⁸ Thou didst bring a vine out of Egypt;
    thou didst drive out the nations and plant it.
⁹ Thou didst clear the ground for it;
    it took deep root and filled the land.
¹⁰ The mountains were covered with its shade,
    the mighty cedars with its branches;
¹¹ it sent out its branches to the sea,
    and its shoots to the River.
¹² Why then hast thou broken down its walls,
    so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
¹³ The boar from the forest ravages it,
    and all that move in the field feed on it.

¹⁴ Turn again, O God of hosts!
    Look down from heaven, and see;
have regard for this vine,
¹⁵     the stock which thy right hand planted.^[b]
16 They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down;
    may they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance!
¹⁷ But let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand,
    the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself!
¹⁸ Then we will never turn back from thee;
    give us life, and we will call on thy name!

¹⁹ Restore us, O Lord God of hosts!
    let thy face shine, that we may be saved!