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¹ For the Leader; upon Shoshannim. A testimony. A Psalm of Asaph.² Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; ³ Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up Thy might, ⁴ O God, restore us; and cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.⁵ O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt Thou be angry against the prayer of Thy people?⁶ Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.⁷ Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours; and our enemies mock as they please.

⁸ O God of hosts, restore us; and cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.⁹ Thou didst pluck up a vine out of Egypt; Thou didst drive out the nations, and didst plant it.¹⁰ Thou didst clear a place before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land.¹¹ The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the mighty cedars with the boughs thereof.¹² She sent out her branches unto the sea, and her shoots unto the River.¹³ Why hast Thou broken down her fences, so that all they that pass by the way do pluck her?¹⁴ The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, that which moveth in the field feedeth on it.¹⁵ O God of hosts, return, we beseech Thee; ¹⁶ And of the stock which Thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that Thou madest strong for Thyself.¹⁷ It is burned with fire, it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of Thy countenance.¹⁸ Let Thy hand be upon the man of Thy right hand, upon the son of man whom Thou madest strong for Thyself.¹⁹ So shall we not turn back from Thee; quicken Thou us, and we will call upon Thy name.

²⁰ O LORD God of hosts, restore us; cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.