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¹ 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 show forth thy strength and come and save us.³ Guide us again, O mighty 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 feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.⁶ Thou hast made us a jest to our neighbors; and our enemies laugh among themselves.⁷ Guide us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

⁸ Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; thou hast cast out the heathen and planted it.⁹ Thou didst prepare the ground and caused it to take deep root, and it filled the land.¹⁰ The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the vine-shoots thereof were upon the cedars of God.¹¹ It sent out its roots unto the sea, and its branches to the rivers.¹² Why hast thou then broken down its hedges, so that all they who pass by the way tread over it?¹³ The boar of the forest devours it, and the wild beasts of the field feed upon it.¹⁴ Return we beseech thee, O God of hosts; look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine¹⁵ And the vineyard which thy right hand has 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 right hand be upon the man and upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.¹⁸ So will we not go back from thee; quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.¹⁹ Guide us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.