[1] Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; Thou that sittest above the cherubim, shine forth. [2] Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy might, And come to save us. [3] Turn us again, O God; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved. [4] O Jehovah God of hosts, How long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? [5] Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure. [6] Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors; And our enemies laugh among themselves. [7] Turn us again, O God of hosts; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved. [8] Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt: Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it. [9] Thou preparedst room before it, And it took deep root, and filled the land. [10] The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were likecedars of God. [11] It sent out its branches unto the sea, And its shoots unto the River. [12] Why hast thou broken down its walls, So that all they that pass by the way do pluck it? [13] The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, And the wild beasts of the field feed on it. [14] Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine, [15] And the stock which thy right hand 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 shall we not go back from thee: Quicken thou us, and we will call upon thy name. [19] Turn us again, O Jehovah God of hosts; Cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
