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