## Psalms Chapter 80

###### Psalms 80:1
[Psalms 80:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/80:1)

לַמְנַצֵּ֥חַ אֶל־שֹׁשַׁנִּ֑ים עֵד֖וּת לְאָסָ֣ף מִזְמֽוֹר׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Testimony, A Psalm of Asaf.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For the conductor, to the roses [(Israel)], a psalm of testimony [and prayer] of Asaf [(Asaf alluding in it to three exiles [viz. the thrice-repeated "Return us; illumine Your face, and we will be saved" (verses 4, 8 and 20)], and also alluding to the afflictions destined to come upon them in the days of the house of Yehu at the hands of the kings of Aram [viz. II Kings 13:7])].


###### Psalms 80:2
[Psalms 80:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/80:2)

רֹ֘עֵ֤ה יִשְׂרָאֵ֨ל**׀** הַאֲזִ֗ינָה נֹהֵ֣ג כַּצֹּ֣אן יוֹסֵ֑ף יֹשֵׁ֖ב הַכְּרוּבִ֣ים הוֹפִֽיעָה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Give ear, O shepherd of Yisra᾽el, that leadest Yosef like flock, Thou who art enthroned upon the keruvim, shine forth.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
O, Shepherd of Israel, hear, [He] who leads Joseph [(Israel)] as [a shepherd leads] the sheep. Dweller [between] the cherubs [on the ark (viz. Exodus 25:22)], appear! [i.e., Manifest Your strength.]


###### Psalms 80:3
[Psalms 80:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/80:3)

לִפְנֵ֤י אֶפְרַ֨יִם**׀** וּבִנְיָ֘מִ֤ן וּמְנַשֶּׁ֗ה עוֹרְרָ֥ה אֶת־גְּבוּרָתֶ֑ךָ וּלְכָ֖ה לִישֻׁעָ֣תָה לָּֽנוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Before Efrayim, and Binyamin, and Menashshe, stir up Thy might, and come to save us.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Before Efraim, and Binyamin, and Menasheh [(though they not be worthy)] awake Your strength, for it befits You to save us. [Ephraim: viz. I Kings 20:3; Menasheh: viz. II Kings 13:4 and 25; Binyamin: in the days of Mordecai and Esther.]


###### Psalms 80:4
[Psalms 80:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/80:4)

אֱלֹהִ֥ים הֲשִׁיבֵ֑נוּ וְהָאֵ֥ר פָּ֝נֶ֗יךָ וְנִוָּשֵֽׁעָה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Restore us, O God, and cause Thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
O G d, return us [(from the Babylonian exile [Mordecai was one of those exiled to Bavel])]; illumine Your face and we will be saved.


###### Psalms 80:5
[Psalms 80:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/80:5)

יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהִ֣ים צְבָא֑וֹת עַד־מָתַ֥י עָ֝שַׁ֗נְתָּ בִּתְפִלַּ֥ת עַמֶּֽךָ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt Thou be angry against the prayer of Thy people?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
O L rd, G d of hosts, how long will You fume [(with the afflictions of the Greek kings)] against the prayer of Your people?


###### Psalms 80:6
[Psalms 80:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/80:6)

הֶ֭אֱכַלְתָּם לֶ֣חֶם דִּמְעָ֑ה וַ֝תַּשְׁקֵ֗מוֹ בִּדְמָע֥וֹת שָׁלִֽישׁ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears; and hast given them tears to drink in great measure.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
You fed them tears for bread [(in Egypt)]. [In Bavel] You gave them a third of the tears to drink [(the exile of Bavel lasting seventy years to Egypt's two hundred and ten)].


###### Psalms 80:7
[Psalms 80:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/80:7)

תְּשִׂימֵ֣נוּ מָ֭דוֹן לִשְׁכֵנֵ֑ינוּ וְ֝אֹיְבֵ֗ינוּ יִלְעֲגוּ־לָֽמוֹ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thou makest us a strife to our neighbours: and our enemies mock as they please.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
You made us [an object of] strife to our neighbors [(Greece)], and our foes mock us.


###### Psalms 80:8
[Psalms 80:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/80:8)

אֱלֹהִ֣ים צְבָא֣וֹת הֲשִׁיבֵ֑נוּ וְהָאֵ֥ר פָּ֝נֶ֗יךָ וְנִוָּשֵֽׁעָה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Restore us, O God of hosts, and cause Thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
O G d of hosts, return us; illumine Your face, and we will be saved [(from Greece)].


###### Psalms 80:9
[Psalms 80:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/80:9)

גֶּ֭פֶן מִמִּצְרַ֣יִם תַּסִּ֑יעַ תְּגָרֵ֥שׁ גּ֝וֹיִ֗ם וַתִּטָּעֶֽהָ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thou hast brought a vine out of Miżrayim, Thou hast cast out nations, and planted it.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
The vine [(Israel)] that You uprooted from Egypt — You drove out [the seven] nations and planted it [there].


###### Psalms 80:10
[Psalms 80:10](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/80:10)

פִּנִּ֥יתָ לְפָנֶ֑יהָ וַתַּשְׁרֵ֥שׁ שׇׁ֝רָשֶׁ֗יהָ וַתְּמַלֵּא־אָֽרֶץ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thou didst clear a space for it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
You cleared out [its dwellers] before it, and it took root and filled the land.


###### Psalms 80:11
[Psalms 80:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/80:11)

כׇּסּ֣וּ הָרִ֣ים צִלָּ֑הּ וַ֝עֲנָפֶ֗יהָ אַֽרְזֵי־אֵֽל׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the mighty cedars with its boughs.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Its shade covered the mountains, and its boughs were mighty cedars [i.e., mighty kings].


###### Psalms 80:12
[Psalms 80:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/80:12)

תְּשַׁלַּ֣ח קְצִירֶ֣הָ עַד־יָ֑ם וְאֶל־נָ֝הָ֗ר יוֹנְקוֹתֶֽיהָ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
She sent out her boughs to the sea, and her branches to the river.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
It sent its branches to the sea [(the Mediterranean)] and its shoots to the river [(The width of Eretz Yisrael is from the desert to the Euphrates)].


###### Psalms 80:13
[Psalms 80:13](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/80:13)

לָ֭מָּה פָּרַ֣צְתָּ גְדֵרֶ֑יהָ וְ֝אָר֗וּהָ כׇּל־עֹ֥בְרֵי דָֽרֶךְ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Why hast Thou then broken down her fences, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck her fruit?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Why do You [now] breach its [the vineyard's] fences and let all of the passersby pluck its fruit?


###### Psalms 80:14
[Psalms 80:14](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/80:14)

יְכַרְסְמֶ֣נָּֽה חֲזִ֣יר מִיָּ֑עַר וְזִ֖יז שָׂדַ֣י יִרְעֶֽנָּה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
The boar out of the wood ravages it, and the wild beast of the field devours it.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[Why should] the swine of the forest [Esav (Rome) viz. Daniel 7:7)] erode it and the creeping things of the field graze on it?


###### Psalms 80:15
[Psalms 80:15](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/80:15)

אֱלֹהִ֣ים צְבָאוֹת֮ שֽׁ֫וּב־נָ֥א הַבֵּ֣ט מִשָּׁמַ֣יִם וּרְאֵ֑ה וּ֝פְקֹ֗ד גֶּ֣פֶן זֹֽאת׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Return, we beseech Thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and be mindful of this vine;

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
O G d of hosts, return [to us] now. Look from the heavens and see, and remember this vine


###### Psalms 80:16
[Psalms 80:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/80:16)

וְ֭כַנָּה אֲשֶׁר־נָטְעָ֣ה יְמִינֶ֑ךָ וְעַל־בֵּ֝֗ן אִמַּ֥צְתָּה לָּֽךְ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
and of the stock which Thy right hand has planted, and the branch that Thou madest strong for Thyself.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
and the plot [Eretz Yisrael] planted by Your right hand. And [remember that] over the son [i.e., over Esav, who was a beloved son to his father Isaac], You granted dominance [to the vine of Jacob (viz. Genesis 40:13)].


###### Psalms 80:17
[Psalms 80:17](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/80:17)

שְׂרֻפָ֣ה בָאֵ֣שׁ כְּסוּחָ֑ה מִגַּעֲרַ֖ת פָּנֶ֣יךָ יֹאבֵֽדוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of Thy countenance.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[And that vine is now] burnt in fire [and] cut off, going lost in the rebuke of Your countenance.


###### Psalms 80:18
[Psalms 80:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/80:18)

תְּֽהִי־יָ֭דְךָ עַל־אִ֣ישׁ יְמִינֶ֑ךָ עַל־בֶּן־אָ֝דָ֗ם אִמַּ֥צְתָּ לָּֽךְ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Let Thy hand be upon the man of Thy right hand, upon the son of a man whom Thou madest strong for Thyself.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Let Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand [(upon Esav, slated for vengeance with Your right hand)], [and] upon the son of man whom You granted dominance [(Jacob) to establish his habitation in the fat of the land].


###### Psalms 80:19
[Psalms 80:19](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/80:19)

וְלֹא־נָס֥וֹג מִמֶּ֑ךָּ תְּ֝חַיֵּ֗נוּ וּבְשִׁמְךָ֥ נִקְרָֽא׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
So shall we not turn back from Thee: revive us and we will call upon Thy name.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And do not [cause us] to turn back from You. Give us life [(from the exile)], and [then] we will call upon Your name.


###### Psalms 80:20
[Psalms 80:20](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/80:20)

יְ֘הֹוָ֤ה אֱלֹהִ֣ים צְבָא֣וֹת הֲשִׁיבֵ֑נוּ הָאֵ֥ר פָּ֝נֶ֗יךָ וְנִוָּשֵֽׁעָה׃{פ}

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Restore us, O Lord God of hosts, cause Thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
O L rd, G d of hosts, return us; illumine Your face and we will be saved. [Here: "L rd, G d of hosts"; verse 8: "G d of hosts"; verse 4: "G d" (each exile being more severe than the preceding one)]