To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim-eduth, A Psalm of Asaph
1Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, You that leads Joseph like a flock; You that dwell between the cherubims, shine forth.
2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up Your strength, and come and save us.
3Turn us again, O God, and cause Your face to shine; and we shall be saved. restore
4O Lord God of hosts, how long will You be angry against the prayer of Your people? Jehovahs.f. Elohimp.f. Tsebaoth
5You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure.
6You make us a strife to our neighbors: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
7Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause Your face to shine; and we shall be saved. Elohimp.f. Tsebaoth
8You have brought a vine out of Egypt: You have cast out the heathen, and planted it. Israel; foreign nations
9You prepared room before it, and did cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
10The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. mighty
11She sent out her boughs to the sea, and her branches to the river.
12Why have You then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
13The boar out of the wood does waste it, and the wild beast of the field does devour it. forest
14Return, we beseech You, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; beg
15And the vineyard which Your right hand has planted, and the branch that You made strong for Yourself.
16It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance. presence
17Let Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand, upon the son of man whom You made strong for Yourself.
18So will not we go back from You: quicken us, and we will call upon Your name. revive, restore
19Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts, cause Your face to shine; and we shall be saved.
