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¹ For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim Eduth. A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that sittest upon the cherubim, shine forth.² Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy might, and come to save us.³ Turn us again, O God; and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.⁴ O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?⁵ Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.⁶ Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.⁷ Turn us again, O God of hosts; and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

⁸ Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt: thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it.⁹ Thou preparedst room before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land.¹⁰ The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like cedars of God.¹¹ She sent out her branches unto the sea, and her shoots unto the River.¹² Why hast thou broken down her fences, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?¹³ The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, and the wild beasts of the field feed on it.¹⁴ Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,¹⁵ And the stock which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.¹⁶ It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.¹⁷ Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.¹⁸ So shall we not go back from thee: quicken thou us, and we will call upon thy name,¹⁹ Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts; cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved;