Psaume 80

Restore your vine, God of Armies

¹For the music director. On shoshannim eduth. Of Asaph. A psalm. ²Turn your ear to us, Shepherd of Israel, \q guiding Joseph like a flock! \q Throned above the cherubim, blaze out in splendor! ³Before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh, \q rouse your strength \q and come to rescue us! ⁴God, bring us back! \q Turn the light of your face on us, and we will be saved. ⁵LORD God of Armies, \q how long will you seethe with anger even while your people pray? ⁶You have made tears their food, \q and given them full measures of tears to drink. ⁷You make us something our neighbors fight over, \q and our enemies sneer at us among themselves. ⁸God of Armies, bring us back! \q Turn the light of your face on us, and we will be saved. ⁹You lifted a vine out of Egypt; \q you expelled nations to plant it. ¹⁰You prepared the soil to receive it; \q it put down its roots and covered the land. ¹¹Its shadow spread over the mountains, \q and its branches over the giant cedars. ¹²It stretched its branches as far as the sea, \q and its shoots to the River. ¹³Why did you break down the walls around it? \q Now everyone who walks along the road picks its grapes. ¹⁴Wild boars from the forest tear it up, \q and the creatures of the open country feed on it. ¹⁵God of Armies, please come back! \q Gaze down from heaven and see; \q care for this vine, ¹⁶the root your right hand planted, \q the son you raised to strength for yourself.^{a 17}It has been burned with fire and cut down; \q your people are dying under your angry rebuke.^{b 18}Let your hand protect the man at your right hand, \q the son of man you raised to strength for yourself.^{c 19}Then we will not drift away from you. \q Bring us back to life, and we will call on you by name. ²⁰LORD God of Armies, bring us back! \q Turn the light of your face on us, and we will be saved.