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^1 (0) For the leader. Set to "Lilies." A testimony. A psalm of Asaf:

^2 (1) Shepherd of Isra'el, listen!
You who lead Yosef like a flock,
you whose throne is on the k'ruvim,
shine out!
^3 (2) Before Efrayim, Binyamin and M'nasheh,
rouse your power; and come to save us.
^4 (3) God, restore us!
Make your face shine, and we will be saved.

^5 (4) Adonai, God of armies, how long
will you be angry with your people's prayers?
^6 (5) You have fed them tears as their bread
and made them drink tears in abundance.
^7 (6) You make our neighbors fight over us,
and our enemies mock us.
^8 (7) God of armies, restore us!
Make your face shine, and we will be saved.

^9 (8) You brought a vine out of Egypt,
you expelled the nations and planted it,
^10 (9) you cleared a space for it;
then it took root firmly and filled the land.
^11 (10) The mountains were covered with its shade,
the mighty cedars with its branches;
^12 (11) It put out branches as far as the sea
and shoots to the [Euphrates] River.

^13 (12) Why did you break down [the vineyard's] wall,
so that all passing by can pluck [its fruit]?
^14 (13) The boar from the forest tears it apart;
wild creatures from the fields feed on it.

^15 (14) God of armies, please come back!
Look from heaven, see, and tend this vine!
^16 (15) Protect what your right hand planted,
the son you made strong for yourself.
^17 (16) It is burned by fire, it is cut down;
they perish at your frown of rebuke.
^18 (17) Help the man at your right hand,
the son of man you made strong for yourself.

^19 (18) Then we won't turn away from you —
if you revive us, we will call on your name.
^20 (19) Adonai, God of armies, restore us!
Make your face shine, and we will be saved.