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.
Before
Ephraim
and Benjamin
and Manasseh
stir up
thy strength,
and come
and save
us.
Turn us again,
O God,
and cause thy face
to shine;
and we shall be saved.
O LORD
God
of hosts,
how long wilt thou be angry
against the prayer
of thy people?
Thou feedest
them with the bread
of tears;
and givest them tears
to drink
in great measure.
Thou makest
us a strife
unto our neighbours:
and our enemies
laugh
among themselves.
Turn us again,
O God
of hosts,
and cause thy face
to shine;
and we shall be saved.
Thou hast brought
a vine
out of Egypt:
thou hast cast out
the heathen,
and planted
it.
Thou preparedst
room before
it, and didst cause it to take deep
root,
and it filled
the land.
The hills
were covered
with the shadow
of it, and the boughs
thereof were like the goodly
cedars.
She sent out
her boughs
unto the sea,
and her branches
unto the river.
Why hast thou then broken down
her hedges,
so that all they which pass
by the way
do pluck
her?
The boar
out of the wood
doth waste
it, and the wild beast
of the field
doth devour
it.
Return,
we beseech thee, O God
of hosts:
look down
from heaven,
and behold,
and visit
this vine;
And the vineyard
which thy right hand
hath planted,
and the branch
that thou madest strong
for thyself.
It is burned
with fire,
it is cut down:
they perish
at the rebuke
of thy countenance.
Let thy hand
be upon the man
of thy right hand,
upon the son
of man
whom thou madest strong
for thyself.
So will not we go back
from thee: quicken
us, and we will call
upon thy name.
Turn us again,
O LORD
God
of hosts,
cause thy face
to shine;
and we shall be saved.
