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¹ To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Testimony of Asaph. A Psalm. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou who leadest Joseph like a flock! Thou who art enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth² before E'phraim and Benjamin and Manas'seh! Stir up thy might, and come to save us!³ Restore us, O God; let thy face shine, that we may be saved!⁴ O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry with thy people's prayers?⁵ Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in full measure.⁶ Thou dost make us the scorn of our neighbors; and our enemies laugh among themselves.⁷ Restore us, O God of hosts; let thy face shine, that we may be saved!

⁸ Thou didst bring a vine out of Egypt; thou didst drive out the nations and plant it.⁹ Thou didst clear the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land.¹⁰ The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches;¹¹ it sent out its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the River.¹² Why then hast thou broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?¹³ The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it.¹⁴ Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine,¹⁵ the stock which thy right hand planted.¹⁶ They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance!¹⁷ But let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself!¹⁸ Then we will never turn back from thee; give us life, and we will call on thy name!¹⁹ Restore us, O LORD God of hosts! let thy face shine, that we may be saved!