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To the chief Musician upon ShoshannimEduth, A Psalm of Asaph.
1 O Isr’el’s shepherd, give thou ear; that Joseph lead’st about like as a flock: that dwell’st between the cherubims, shine out. 2 Before Ephr’im and Benjamin, Manasseh’s tribe also, do thou stir up thy strength, and come, and to us safety show.
3 O God, return thou us again, and cause thy countenance to shine forth upon us; so we shall have deliverance. 4 Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be wroth at thy folks’ pray’rs? 5 Thou feed’st with bread of tears, and them to drink giv’st many tears.
6 A strife unto our neighbours us thou dost also expose: and scornfully amongst themselves laugh at us do our foes. 7 O God of hosts, turn us again, and cause thy countenance to shine forth upon us, so we shall have deliverance.
8 Thou hast brought out of Egypt land a vine, thou diddest cast the heathen people forth, also this vine thou planted hast. 9 Before it thou prepared hast a room where it might stand: deep root thou didst cause it to take and it did fill the land.
10 Her shade hid hills, and her boughs did like cedars great extend. 11 Her boughs to th’ sea, and her branches she to the flood did send. 12 Why hast thou then her hedges made quite broken down to lie, so that all those do pluck at her that in the way pass by?
13 The boar from out the wood he doth by wasting it annoy: and wild beasts of the field do it devouringly destroy. 14 We do beseech thee to return, O God of hosts, incline to look from heaven, and behold, and visit thou this vine.
15 The vineyard which thou hast also with thy right hand set fast, that branch likewise which for thyself strongly confirm’d thou hast. 16 It is consumed with the fire and utterly cut down, perish they do, and that because thy countenance doth frown.
17 Upon the man of thy right hand let thine hand present be: upon the son of man whom thou hast made so strong for thee. 18 So then from henceforth we will not from thee go back at all: O do thou quicken us, and we upon thy name will call.
19 Lord God of hosts, turn us again, and cause thy countenance to shine forth upon us, so we shall have deliverance.