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¹ Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, who guidest Joseph like a flock; thou who sittest upon the cherubs, manifest thyself; ² before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up thy power, and come to deliver us. ³ Turn us, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be delivered. ⁴ O Lord God of hosts, how long art thou angry with the prayer of thy servant? ⁵ Thou wilt feed us with bread of tears; and wilt cause us to drink tears by measure. ⁶ Thou has made us a strife to our neighbours; and our enemies have mocked at us. ⁷ Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. Pause.

⁸ Thou hast transplanted a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. ⁹ Thou madest a way before it, and didst cause its roots to strike, and the land was filled with it. ¹⁰ Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots equalled the goodly cedars. ¹¹ It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river. ¹² Wherefore hast thou broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it? ¹³ The boar out of the wood has laid it waste, and the wild beast has devoured it. ¹⁴ O God of hosts, turn, we pray thee: look on us from heaven, and behold and visit this vine; ¹⁵ and restore that which thy right hand has planted: and look on the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself. ¹⁶ It is burnt with fire and dug up: they shall perish at the rebuke of thy presence. ¹⁷ Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, and upon the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself. ¹⁸ So will we not depart from thee: thou shalt quicken us, and we will call upon thy name. ¹⁹ Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and make thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.