1 - ?For the director of music. To the tune of "The Lilies of the Covenant." Of Asaph. A psalm.?
Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth
2 - before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh. Awaken your might; come and save us.
3 - Restore us, O God; make your face shine on us, that we may be saved.
4 - How long, Lord God Almighty, will your anger smolder against the prayers of your people?
5 - You have fed them with the bread of tears; you have made them drink tears by the bowlful.
6 - You have made us an object of derision
7 - Restore us, God Almighty; make your face shine on us, that we may be saved.
8 - You transplanted a vine from Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.
9 - You cleared the ground for it, and it took root and filled the land.
10 - The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches.
11 - Its branches reached as far as the Sea,
12 - Why have you broken down its walls so that all who pass by pick its grapes?
13 - Boars from the forest ravage it, and insects from the fields feed on it.
14 - Return to us, God Almighty! Look down from heaven and see! Watch over this vine,
15 - the root your right hand has planted, the son
16 - Your vine is cut down, it is burned with fire; at your rebuke your people perish.
17 - Let your hand rest on the man at your right hand, the son of man you have raised up for yourself.
18 - Then we will not turn away from you; revive us, and we will call on your name.
19 - Restore us, Lord God Almighty; make your face shine on us, that we may be saved.