1“For the leader of the music. Upon the Shushan-Eduth. A psalm of Asaph.” Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel! Thou who leadest Joseph like a flock, Thou who sittest between the cherubs, shine forth!
2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy strength, And come and save us!
3Bring us back, O God! And cause thy face to shine, that we may be saved!
4O LORD, God of hosts! How long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
5For thou causest them to eat the bread of tears, And givest them tears to drink, in full measure.
6Thou hast made us the object of strife to our neighbors, And our enemies hold us in derision.
7Bring us back, O God of hosts! And cause thy face to shine that we may be saved!
8Thou didst bring a vine out of Egypt; Thou didst expel the nations, and plant it.
9Thou didst prepare a place for it; It spread its roots, and filled the land.
10The mountains were covered with its shade, And its branches were like the cedars of God.
11It sent out its boughs to the sea, And its branches to the river.
12Why hast thou now broken down its hedges, So that all who pass by do pluck from it?
13The boar from the wood doth waste it, And the wild beast of the forest doth devour it.
14O God of hosts! return, we beseech thee, Look down from heaven, and behold, And have regard to this vine!
15Protect what thy right hand planted; The branch which thou madest strong for thyself!
16It is burnt with fire; it is cut down; Under thy rebuke they perish.
17May thy hand be over the man of thy right hand, The man whom thou madest strong for thyself!
18So will we no more turn back from thee: Revive us, and upon thy name alone will we call!
19Bring us back, O LORD, God of hosts! And cause thy face to shine, that we may he saved!
