✧For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim 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. ✧2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy might, And come to save us. ✧3Turn us again, O God; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved. ✧4O Jehovah God of hosts, How long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? ✧5Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure. ✧6Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors; And our enemies laugh among themselves. ✧7Turn us again, O God of hosts; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved. ✧8Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt: Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it. ✧9Thou preparedst [room] before it, And it took deep root, and filled the land. ✧10The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were [like] cedars of God. ✧11It sent out its branches unto the sea, And its shoots unto the River. ✧12Why hast thou broken down its walls, So that all they that pass by the way do pluck it? ✧13The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, And the wild beasts of the field feed on it. ✧14Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine, ✧15And the stock which thy right hand planted, And the branch that thou madest strong for thyself. ✧16It is burned with fire, it is cut down: They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. ✧17Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, Upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself. ✧18So shall we not go back from thee: Quicken thou us, and we will call upon thy name. ✧19Turn us again, O Jehovah God of hosts; Cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.