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Psalm 80

Psalm

A psalm written by Asaph

80 God, other people groups have invaded your own land.

They have desecrated your temple,

and they have destroyed all the buildings in Jerusalem.

2 Instead of burying the corpses of your people whom they killed,

they allowed the vultures to eat the flesh of those corpses,

and they also allowed wild animals to eat the corpses of your people.

3 When they killed your people,

your people’s blood flowed like water through the streets of Jerusalem,

and there was almost no one left to bury their corpses.

4 The people groups that live in countries that surround our land insult us;

they laugh at us and mock us.

5 Yahweh, how long will this continue?

Will you be angry with us forever?

Will your anger be like a fire burning within you?

6 Instead of being angry with us,

be angry with the people groups that do not know you!

Be angry with kingdoms whose people do not pray to you

7 because they have killed Israelite people

and they have ruined your country.

8 Do not punish us because of the sins that our ancestors committed!

Act mercifully toward us now

because we are very discouraged.

9 God, you have saved us many times,

so help us now;

rescue us and forgive us for having sinned

so that other people will honor you.

10 It is not right that the other people groups say about us,

“If their God is very powerful, why does he not help them?”

Allow us to see you punishing the people of other nations in return for their shedding our blood

and killing many of us, your people.

11 Listen to your people groaning while they are in prison,

and by your great power, free those whom our enemies say they will certainly execute.

12 In return for their having often insulted you,

punish them seven times as much!

13 After you do that, we, whom you take care of as a shepherd takes care of his sheep, will continue praising you;

we will continue to praise you from generation to generation forever.

Psalm

A psalm written by Asaph for the choir director, to be sung using the tune ‘Lilies of the covenant’

80 Yahweh, you who lead us as a shepherd leads his flock of sheep,

you who sit on your throne in the Very Holy Place in the temple, above the figures of winged creatures,

come and do powerful things for us Israelite people.

2 Show yourself to the people of the tribes of Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh!

Show us that you are powerful

and come and rescue us!

3 God, cause our nation to be strong like it was before;

act kindly toward us so that we may be saved from our enemies!

4 Yahweh, commander of the angel armies,

how long will you be angry with us, your people, when we pray to you?

5 It is as though the only food and drink that you have given us is a cup full of our tears!

6 You have allowed the people groups that surround us to argue with each other to decide which part of our land each of them will take;

they laugh at us.

7 God, Commander of the angel armies,

make our nation strong as it was before!

Act kindly toward us so that we may be saved!

8 Our ancestors were like a grapevine that you brought out of Egypt;

you drove out the other people groups from this land,

and you put your people in their land.

9 As people clear ground to plant a grapevine,

you cleared out the people who were living in this land for us to live in it.

As the roots of a grapevine go deep down into the ground and spread,

you enabled our ancestors to prosper and start living in towns all over this land.

10 As huge grapevines cover the hills with their shade

and as their branches are taller than big cedar trees,

11 your people ruled all of Canaan, from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the Euphrates River in the east.

12 So why have you abandoned us

and allowed our enemies to tear down our walls?

You are like someone who tears down the fences around his vineyard,

so that all the people who pass by can steal the grapes;

13 wild pigs can trample the vines,

and wild animals can also eat the grapes.

14 You who are the commander of the angel armies, turn to us!

Look down from heaven and see what is happening to us!

Come and rescue us who are like your grapevine,

15 who are like the young vine that you planted and caused to grow!

16 Our enemies have torn down and burned everything in our land;

look at them angrily and get rid of them!

17 But strengthen us people whom you have chosen,

us Israelite people, whom you previously caused to be very strong.

18 When you do that, we will never turn away from you again;

revive us, and then we will praise you.

19 Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, restore us;

act kindly toward us and rescue us from our enemies!