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Psalms 80

¶ To him that excelleth on Shoshannim Edúth. A Psalme committed to Asáph.
1.Heare, aô thou Shepherd of Israél, thou that leadest Joséph like sheep: shew thy brightness, thou that sittest between the bCherubims.
2.Before Ephráim & Benjamín & Manasséh stir up thy strength, and come to help us.
3.cTurn us again, ô God, and cause thy face to shine that we may be saved.
4.O Lord God of hostes, how long wilt thou be dangrie against the prayer of thy people?
5.Thou hast fed them with the bred of tears, and given them tears to drink with great measure.
6.Thou hast made us a estrife unto our neighbours, and our enemies laugh at us among them selves.
7.fTurn us again, ô God of hostes: cause thy face to shine, and we shalbe saved.
8.Thou hast brought a gvine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
9.Thou madest roume for it, and didest cause it to take root, and it filled the land.
10.The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the ^goodlie cedars.
11.She stretched out her branches unto the Sea, and her boughs unto the hRiver.
12.Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they, which pass by the way, have plucked her?
13.The wild iboar out of the wood hath destroyed it, and the wild beasts of the field have eaten it up.
14.Return we beseech thee, ô God of hostes: look down kfrom heaven and behold and visit this vine,
15.And the vineyard, that thy right hand hath planted, and the young vine, which thou madest lstrong for thy self.
16.It is burnt with fyer and cut down: and they perish at the mrebuke of thy countenance.
17.Let thine hand be upon the nman of thy right hand, and upon the son of man, whom thou madest strong for thine own self.
18.So wil not we go back from thee: revive thou us, and we shal call upon thy Name.
19.Turn us again, ô Lord God of hostes: cause thy face to shine and we shalbe saved.

Notes

1-a.
This psalm was made as a prayer for to desire God to be merciful to the ten tribes.
1-b.
Move their hearts that they may return to worship God aright, that is in the place where you have appointed.
3-c.
Join your whole people and all your tribes together again.
4-d.
The faithful fear God’s anger, when they perceive that their prayers are not forthwith heard.
6-e.
Our neighbours have continual strife and war against us.
7-f.
Because that repentance only comes of God, they most instantly and oft times call to God for it as a mean, whereby they shalbe saved.
8-g.
Seeing that of your mercy you have made us a most dear possession to you, and we through our sins are made open for wild beasts to devour us, declare again your love and finish the work that you have begun.
10-^.
Ebr., Cedars of God.
11-h.
To wit, Euphrates.
13-i.
That is, as well they that hate our religion as they that hate our persons.
14-k.
They give not place to tentation, knowing that albeit there were no help in earth, yet God was able to succour them from heaven.
15-l.
So that no power can prevail against it, and which as a young bud you raised up again as out of the burnt ashes.
16-m.
Only when you are angry, and not with the sword of the enemy.
17-n.
That is, upon this vine, or people, whom you have planted with your right hand, that they should be as one man or one body.
18-o.
For none can call upon God, but such as are raised up, as it were, from death to life and regenerate by the holy Spirit.