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¹ Heare o thou shepherde of Israel, thou yt ledest Iacob like a flocke of shepe: shewe yi self, thou yt syttest vpo ye Cherubins.² Before Ephraim, Be Iamin & Manasses: stere vp thy power & come helpe vs.³ Turne vs agayne (o God) shewe the light of thy countenauce & we shalbe whole.⁴ O LORDE God of hoostes, how loge wilt thou be angrie ouer the prayer of thy people?⁵ Thou hast fed the with the bred of teares, yee thou hast geuen the pleteousnes of teares to drynke.⁶ Thou hast made vs a very strife vnto or neghbours, & or enemies laugh vs to scorne.⁷ Turne vs agayne (thou God of hoostes) shewe the light of thy coutenauce, & we shalbe whole.

⁸ Thou hast brought a vynyarde out of Egipte, thou didest cast out ye Heithe, & plate it.⁹ Thou maydest rowme for it, & caused it to take rote, so yt it fylled the lode.¹⁰ The hilles were couered with the shadowe of it, & so were the stronge Cedretrees wt the bowes therof.¹¹ She stretched out hir brauches vnto the see, & hir bowes vnto the water:¹² Why hast thou then broken downe hir hedge, that all they which go by, plucke of hir grapes?¹³ The wilde bore out of the wod hath wrutt it vp, & the beestes of the felde haue deuoured it.¹⁴ Turne ye agayne (thou God of hoostes) loke downe from heauen, beholde & viset this vynyarde.¹⁵ Manteyne it, that thy right hode hath plated, & the sonne whom thou maydest so moch of for thy self.¹⁶ For why? it is bret with fyre, & lyeth waist: o let the perishe at the rebuke of thy wrath.¹⁷ Let thy honde be vpon the man of thy right honde, & vpon the man who thou maydest so moch off for thine owne self.¹⁸ And so wil not we go backe from the: oh let vs lyue, & we shal call vpon thy name.¹⁹ Turne vs agayne o LORDE God of hoostes, shewe the light of thy coutenauce, & we shal be whole.