| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New Living Translation |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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 |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2to Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Show us your mighty power. Come to rescue us! |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Turn us again to yourself, O God. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, how long will you be angry with our prayers? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5You have fed us with sorrow and made us drink tears by the bucketful. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6You have made us the scorn of neighboring nations. Our enemies treat us as a joke. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Turn us again to yourself, O God of Heaven’s Armies. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8You brought us from Egypt like a grapevine; you drove away the pagan nations and transplanted us into your land. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9You cleared the ground for us, and we took root and filled the land. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Our shade covered the mountains; our branches covered the mighty cedars. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11We spread our branches west to the Mediterranean Sea; our shoots spread east to the Euphrates River. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12But now, why have you broken down our walls so that all who pass by may steal our fruit? |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The wild boar from the forest devours it, and the wild animals feed on it. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Come back, we beg you, O God of Heaven’s Armies. Look down from heaven and see our plight. Take care of this grapevine |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15that you yourself have planted, this son you have raised for yourself. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For we are chopped up and burned by our enemies. May they perish at the sight of your frown. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Strengthen the man you love, the son of your choice. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Then we will never abandon you again. Revive us so we can call on your name once more. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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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