1(To the chief Musician upon Shoshannimeduth,
A Psalm of Asaph.) Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,
thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that
dwellest between the
cherubims, shine forth.
2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh
stir up thy strength, and come and save
us.
3Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to
shine; and we shall be saved.
4O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be
angry against the prayer of thy people?
5Thou feedest them with the bread of tears;
and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
6Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours:
and our enemies laugh among themselves.
7Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy
face to shine; and we shall be saved.
8Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou
hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
9Thou preparedst room before
it, and didst 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.
11She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and
her branches unto the river.
12Why hast thou then broken
down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the
way do pluck her?
13The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and
the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
14Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts:
look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this
vine;
15And the vineyard which thy right hand hath
planted, and the branch that thou
madest strong for thyself.
16It
is burned with fire, it
is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy
countenance.
17Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right
hand, upon the son of man whom thou
madest strong for thyself.
18So will not we go back from thee: quicken
us, and we will call upon thy name.
19Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause
thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.