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¹ To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim Eduth, A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest [between] the cherubim, shine forth.² Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come [and] save us.³ Turn us again, O 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 makest us a strife to our neighbors: and our enemies laugh among themselves.⁷ Turn 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 preparedst [room] before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.¹⁰ The hills were covered with the shade of it, and its boughs [were like] the goodly cedars.¹¹ She sent out her boughs to the sea, and her branches to the river.¹² Why hast thou [then] broke down her hedges, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck her?¹³ The boar from the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.¹⁴ Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;¹⁵ And the vineyard which thy right hand planted, and the branch [that] thou madest strong for thyself.¹⁶ [It is] burnt with fire, [it is] cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.¹⁷ Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man [whom] thou madest strong for thyself.¹⁸ So will we not go back from thee: revive us, and we will call upon thy name.¹⁹ Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.