To the chief musician, on Shoshannim-eduth A psalm of Asaph
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📚✭Give ear, O Shepherd✭ of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock.
You who dwell between
the cherubim✭, shine forth.
2 📚✭Before Ephraim and Benjamin
and Manasseh stir up
your strength,
and come and save us.
3 📚✭Restore us, O God, and cause your
face to shine✭;
and we will be saved.
4 📚✭O LORD God of hosts,
how long will you be angry
with the prayer of your people?
5 📚✭You feed them with the bread
of tears and give them a great
many tears to drink.
6 📚You make us an object of
strife to our neighbours,
and our enemies laugh among
themselves.
7 📚Restore us again, O God
of hosts,
and cause your face to shine;
and we will be saved.
8 📚✭You brought a vine out
of Egypt.
You drove out the nations
and planted it.
9 📚You prepared room for it
and caused it to take deep root,
and it filled the land.
10 📚The hills were covered
with its shadow,
and the mighty cedars
with its branches.
11 📚✭It sent out its boughs to the sea,
and its branches to the Euphrates River.
12 📚✭Why then have you broken down its walls,
so that all who pass by the way
pick its grapes?
13 📚✭The boar out of the woods ruins it,
and the wild beast of the field devours it.
14 📚✭Return, we beseech you, O God of hosts!
Look down from heaven, and see,
and visit this vine,
15 📚And the vineyard which your right hand
has planted,
and the branch that you made strong for
yourself.
16 📚It is burned with fire, it is cut down.
They perish at the rebuke of your countenance.
17 📚✭Let your hand be on the man of your right
hand,
on the son of man whom you made strong
for yourself.
18 📚✭Then we will not turn back from you.
Revive us, and we will call on your name.
19 📚Restore us, O LORD God of hosts;
cause your face to shine,
and we will be saved.