1    Hear, O Shepherd of Israel,  ♦

you that led Joseph like a flock;

2    Shine forth, you that are enthroned upon the cherubim,  ♦

before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh.

3    Stir up your mighty strength  ♦

and come to our salvation.

4    Turn us again, O God;  ♦

show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved.

5    O Lord God of hosts,  ♦

how long will you be angry at your people’s prayer?

6    You feed them with the bread of tears;  ♦

you give them abundance of tears to drink.

7    You have made us the derision of our neighbours,  ♦

and our enemies laugh us to scorn.

8    Turn us again, O God of hosts;  ♦

show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved.

9    You brought a vine out of Egypt;  ♦

you drove out the nations and planted it.

10  You made room around it,  ♦

and when it had taken root, it filled the land.

11  The hills were covered with its shadow  ♦

and the cedars of God by its boughs.

12  It stretched out its branches to the Sea  ♦

and its tendrils to the River.

13  Why then have you broken down its wall,  ♦

so that all who pass by pluck off its grapes?

14  The wild boar out of the wood tears it off,  ♦

and all the insects of the field devour it.

15  Turn again, O God of hosts,  ♦

look down from heaven and behold;

16  Cherish this vine which your right hand has planted,  ♦

and the branch that you made so strong for yourself.

17  Let those who burnt it with fire, who cut it down,  ♦

perish at the rebuke of your countenance.

18  Let your hand be upon the man at your right hand,  ♦

the son of man you made so strong for yourself.

19  And so will we not go back from you;  ♦

give us life, and we shall call upon your name.

20  Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts;  ♦

show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved.

 

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