1 - For the Chief Musician, set to Shoshanim Eduth.. A Psalm of Asaph. 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 [like] cedars 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.