| English Standard Version | New Living Translation |
| 1Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth. | 1Please listen, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph’s descendants like a flock. O God, enthroned above the cherubim, display your radiant glory |
| 2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might and come to save us! | 2to Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Show us your mighty power. Come to rescue us! |
| 3Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved! | 3Turn us again to yourself, O God. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved. |
| 4O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry with your people’s prayers? | 4O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, how long will you be angry with our prayers? |
| 5You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure. | 5You have fed us with sorrow and made us drink tears by the bucketful. |
| 6You make us an object of contention for our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves. | 6You have made us the scorn of neighboring nations. Our enemies treat us as a joke. |
| 7Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! | 7Turn us again to yourself, O God of Heaven’s Armies. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved. |
| 8You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it. | 8You brought us from Egypt like a grapevine; you drove away the pagan nations and transplanted us into your land. |
| 9You cleared the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land. | 9You cleared the ground for us, and we took root and filled the land. |
| 10The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches. | 10Our shade covered the mountains; our branches covered the mighty cedars. |
| 11It sent out its branches to the sea and its shoots to the River. | 11We spread our branches west to the Mediterranean Sea; our shoots spread east to the Euphrates River. |
| 12Why then have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit? | 12But now, why have you broken down our walls so that all who pass by may steal our fruit? |
| 13The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it. | 13The wild boar from the forest devours it, and the wild animals feed on it. |
| 14Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine, | 14Come back, we beg you, O God of Heaven’s Armies. Look down from heaven and see our plight. Take care of this grapevine |
| 15the stock that your right hand planted, and for the son whom you made strong for yourself. | 15that you yourself have planted, this son you have raised for yourself. |
| 16They have burned it with fire; they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of your face! | 16For we are chopped up and burned by our enemies. May they perish at the sight of your frown. |
| 17But let your hand be on the man of your right hand, the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself! | 17Strengthen the man you love, the son of your choice. |
| 18Then we shall not turn back from you; give us life, and we will call upon your name! | 18Then we will never abandon you again. Revive us so we can call on your name once more. |
| 19Restore us, O LORD God of hosts! Let your face shine, that we may be saved! | 19Turn us again to yourself, O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved. |
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