✧1For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm by Asaph. Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out. ✧2Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us! ✧3Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved. ✧4LORD God of Armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people? ✧5You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure. ✧6You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves. ✧7Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved. ✧8You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.
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✧9You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.
✧10The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God’s cedars.
✧11It sent out its branches to the sea, its shoots to the River.
✧12Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
✧13The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.
✧14Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,
✧15the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself.
✧16It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.
✧17Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
✧18So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.
✧19Turn us again, LORD God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.