Psalm 80

Qui regis Israel

Hear, O thou Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep *

shew thyself also, thou that sittest upon the cherubims.

Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses *

stir up thy strength, and come, and help us.

Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt *

thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

Thou madest room for it *

and when it had taken root it filled the land.

The hills were covered with the shadow of it *

and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedar-trees.

She stretched out her branches unto the sea *

and her boughs unto the river.

Why hast thou then broken down her hedge *

that all they that go by pluck off her grapes?

The wild boar out of the wood doth root it up *

and the wild beasts of the field devour it.

Turn thee again, thou God of hosts, look down from heaven *

behold, and visit this vine;

And the place of the vineyard that thy right hand hath planted *

and the branch that thou madest so strong for thyself.

It is burnt with fire, and cut down *

and they shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand *

and upon the son of man, whom thou madest so strong for thine own self.

And so will not we go back from thee *

O let us live, and we shall call upon thy Name.