[1] Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou who leadest Joseph like a flock! Thou who art enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth [2] before E′phraim and Benjamin and Manas′seh! Stir up thy might, and come to save us! [3] Restore us, O God; let thy face shine, that we may be saved! [4] O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry with thy people's prayers? [5] Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in full measure. [6] Thou dost make us the scorn of our neighbors; and our enemies laugh among themselves. [7] Restore us, O God of hosts; let thy face shine, that we may be saved! [8] Thou didst bring a vine out of Egypt; thou didst drive out the nations and plant it. [9] Thou didst clear the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land. [10] The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches; [11] it sent out its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the River. [12] Why then hast thou broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit? [13] The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it. [14] Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine, [15] the stock which thy right hand planted. [16] They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance! [17] But let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself! [18] Then we will never turn back from thee; give us life, and we will call on thy name! [19] Restore us, O LORD God of hosts! let thy face shine, that we may be saved!
