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¹ For the Chief Musician, set to Shoshannim Eduth.. A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, You that lead Joseph like a flock; You that sit [above] the cherubim, shine forth.² Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might, And come to save us.³ Turn us again, O God; And cause your face to shine, and we shall be saved.⁴ O Yahweh God of hosts, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?⁵ You have fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.⁶ You make us a strife to our neighbors; And our enemies laugh among themselves.⁷ Turn us again, O God of hosts; And cause your face to shine, and we shall be saved.

⁸ You brought a vine out of Egypt: You drove out the nations, and planted it.⁹ You prepared [room] before it, And it took deep root, and filled the land.¹⁰ The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were [like] cedars of God.¹¹ It sent out its branches to the sea, And its shoots to the River.¹² Why have you broken down its walls, So that all those that pass by the way pluck it?¹³ The boar out of the forest ravages it, And the wild beasts of the field feed on it.¹⁴ Turn again, we urge you, O God of hosts: Look down from heaven, and look, and visit this vine,¹⁵ and the stock which your right hand planted, and the son that you made strong for yourself.¹⁶ It is burned with fire, it is cut down: They perish at the rebuke of your countenance.¹⁷ Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, On the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.¹⁸ So we shall not go back from you: Quicken us, and we will call on your name.¹⁹ Turn us again, O Yahweh God of hosts; Cause your face to shine, and we shall be saved.