1For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim Eduth. A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, You who lead Joseph like a flock; You who sit above the cherubim, shine forth.
2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might, And come to save us.
3Turn us again, O God; And cause your face to shine, and we shall be saved.
4O Yehovah God of hosts, 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 strife to our neighbors; And our enemies laugh among themselves.
7Turn us again, O God of hosts; And cause your face to shine, and we shall be saved.
8You brought a vine out of Egypt: You drove out the nations, and planted it.
9You prepared room before it, And it took deep root, and filled the land.
10The mountains were covered with its shadow, And its boughs were like cedars of God.
11It sent out its branches to the sea, And 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, And the wild beasts of the field feed on it.
14Turn again, we beseech you, O God of hosts: Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,
15And the stock which your right hand planted, And the branch that you made strong for yourself.
16It is burned with fire, it is cut down: They perish at the rebuke of your countenance.
17Let your hand be upon the man of your right hand, Upon the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
18So we shall not go back from you: Revive us, and we will call upon your name.
19Turn us again, O Yehovah God of hosts; Cause your face to shine, and we shall be saved.