[1] To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Testimony of Asaph. A Psalm.
[2] Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou who leadest Joseph like a flock!
Thou who art enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth [3] before E'phraim
and Benjamin and Manas'seh! Stir up thy might, and come to save us! [4]
Restore us, O God; let thy face shine, that we may be saved! [5] O LORD God
of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry with thy people's prayers? [6] Thou
hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in
full measure. [7] Thou dost make us the scorn of our neighbors; and our
enemies laugh among themselves. [8] Restore us, O God of hosts; let thy
face shine, that we may be saved! [9] Thou didst bring a vine out of Egypt;
thou didst drive out the nations and plant it. [10] Thou didst clear the
ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land. [11] The mountains
were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches; [12] it
sent out its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the River. [13] Why
then hast thou broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way
pluck its fruit? [14] The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that
move in the field feed on it. [15] Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down
from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine, [16] the stock which thy
right hand planted. [17] They have burned it with fire, they have cut it
down; may they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance! [18] But let thy
hand be upon the man of thy right hand, the son of man whom thou hast made
strong for thyself! [19] Then we will never turn back from thee; give us
life, and we will call on thy name! [ (Psalms 80:20) Restore us, O LORD God
of hosts! let thy face shine, that we may be saved! ]
