Psalms 80 – Cause Thy Face to Shine and We Shall Be Saved
A prayer for restoration, pictured as a vine God once planted.
This chapter of the Psalms overview calls on the Shepherd of Israel to restore His people, continuing the plea for mercy raised in Psalms 79 with the tender image of a shepherd leading his flock.
The title of the eiytetithe salm. To the ouercomer in the pressours of Asaph.
Make ye fulli ioye to God, oure helpere; synge ye hertli to God of Jacob.
Take ye a salm, and yyue ye a tympan; a myrie sautere with an harpe.
Blowe ye with a trumpe in Neomenye; in the noble dai of youre solempnite.
For whi comaundement is in Israel; and doom is to God of Jacob.
He settide that witnessing in Joseph; whanne he yede out of the lond of Egipt, he herde a langage, which he knew not.
He turnede a wei his bak fro birthens; hise hondis serueden in a coffyn.
In tribulacioun thou inwardli clepidist me, and Y delyuerede thee; Y herde thee in the hid place of tempest, Y preuede thee at the water of ayenseiyng.
My puple, here thou, and Y schal be witnesse ayens thee;
Israel, if thou herist me, a fresche God schal not be in thee, and thou schalt not worschipe an alien god.
For Y am thi Lord God, that ladde thee out of the lond of Egipt; make large thi mouth, and Y schal fille it.
And my puple herde not my vois; and Israel yaue not tente to me.
And Y lefte hem aftir the desiris of her herte; thei schulen go in her fyndyngis.
If my puple hadde herde me; if Israel hadde go in my weies.
For nouyt in hap Y hadde maad low her enemyes; and Y hadde send myn hond on men doynge tribulacioun to hem.
The enemyes of the Lord lieden to hym; and her tyme schal be in to worldis.
And he fedde hem of the fatnesse of whete; and he fillide hem with hony of the stoon.