Book of Psalms, No. 80
Psalms 80 NWT - New World TranslationNo. 80 of the Psalms—New World Translation (NWT)
- ¶ O Shepherd of Israel, do give ear,1
You who are conducting Joseph just like a flock.2
O you who are sitting upon the cherubs,3 do beam forth.4 - ¶ Before Eʹphra·im and Benjamin and Ma·nasʹseh do rouse up your mightiness,5
And do come to our salvation.6 - ¶ O God, bring us back;7
And light up your face, that we may be saved.8 - ¶ O Jehovah God of armies, how long must you fume against the prayer of your people?9
- ¶ You have made them eat the bread of tears,10
And you keep making them drink tears upon tears in [great] measure.[a]11 - ¶ You set us for strife to our neighbors,12
And our very enemies keep deriding as they please.13 - ¶ O God of armies,[b] bring us back;14
And light up your face, that we may be saved.15 - ¶ You proceeded to make a vine depart from Egypt.16
You kept driving out the nations, that you might plant it.17 - ¶ You made a clearing before it,18 that it might take root and fill the land.19
- ¶ The mountains were covered with its shadow,
And the cedars of God with its boughs.20 - ¶ It gradually sent forth its boughs as far as the sea,21
And to the River[c] its twigs.22 - ¶ Why have you broken down its stone walls,23
And [why] have all those passing by on the road plucked at it?24 - ¶ A boar out of the woods[d] keeps eating it away,25
And the animal throngs of the open field keep feeding upon it.26 - ¶ O God of armies,[e] return,[f] please;27
Look down from heaven and see and take care of this vine,28 - ¶ And the stock[g] that your right hand has planted,29
And [look] upon the son[h] whom you have made strong for yourself.30 - ¶ It is burned with fire, cut off.31
From the rebuke of your face they perish.32 - ¶ Let your hand prove to be upon the man[i] of your right hand,33
Upon the son of mankind[j] whom you have made strong for yourself,34 - ¶ And we shall not turn back from you.35
May you preserve us alive, that we may call upon your own name.36 - ¶ O Jehovah God of armies,[k] bring us back;37
Light up your face, that we may be saved.38
FOOTNOTES
- ^ “In [great] measure.” Lit., “third part,” that is, of some undetermined measure. Heb., sha·lishʹ.
- ^ “God of armies,” MTSy; Gr., Kyʹri·e ho The·osʹ ton dy·naʹme·on, “Jehovah God of powers,” as in vs 19 (79:20, LXX).
- ^ That is, the Euphrates.
- ^ In this Heb. noun the letter ʽAʹyin is suspended to mark the middle of the Psalms.
- ^ “God of armies.” Heb., ʼElo·himʹ tseva·ʼohthʹ.
- ^ Or, “once again,” referring to the verbs in the next line.
- ^ Or, “branch [of the vine].” By a change of the first Heb. letter, “garden.”
- ^ “Son,” M; LXXSyVgc, “son of man”; T, “king Messiah (anointed).”
- ^ “Man of.” Heb., ʼish.
- ^ Or, “earthling man.” Heb., ʼa·dhamʹ.
- ^ Compare vs 7a.
REFERENCES
- ^ Ps 55:1
- ^ Ps 77:20; Is 40:11; Je 31:10; Eze 34:12; 1Pe 2:25
- ^ Ex 25:20; 1Sa 4:4; 2Sa 6:2; 2Ki 19:15; Ps 99:1
- ^ De 33:2; Ps 50:2; 94:1
- ^ Nu 2:18; Ps 35:23; Is 42:13
- ^ Is 25:9; 33:22
- ^ Ps 85:4; La 5:21
- ^ Nu 6:25; Ps 4:6; 67:1
- ^ Ps 74:1; 85:5; La 3:44
- ^ Ps 42:3
- ^ Ps 102:9; Is 30:20
- ^ Ps 44:13
- ^ Jg 16:25; Ps 79:4
- ^ Ps 80:3
- ^ Ps 4:6
- ^ Is 5:7; Je 2:21; Eze 19:10
- ^ Ps 44:2; 78:55
- ^ Ex 23:28; Jos 24:12; Ne 9:22; Ps 105:44
- ^ 1Ki 4:25
- ^ Ps 104:16
- ^ Ex 23:31; Ps 72:8
- ^ Ge 15:18; 1Ki 4:21
- ^ Ps 89:40; Is 5:5
- ^ Ps 89:41; Na 2:2
- ^ 2Ki 18:9; 2Ch 32:1
- ^ 2Ki 24:1; 25:1; Je 39:1
- ^ Is 63:17; Ml 3:7
- ^ Is 63:15
- ^ Is 5:2; Je 2:21; Mr 12:1
- ^ Ex 4:22; Is 49:5
- ^ Ps 79:5; Je 52:13
- ^ Ps 39:11
- ^ Ps 89:21; 110:1
- ^ Da 7:13
- ^ Heb 10:39
- ^ Ac 15:17
- ^ Ps 80:7
- ^ Ps 89:15
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