¹ To the chief Musician upon Shoshannimeduth, A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubim, shine forth.¹

1. of: or, for

² Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.¹

1. come...: Heb. come for salvation to us

³ Restore us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

⁴ O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?¹

1. be...: Heb. smoke

⁵ Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

⁶ Thou makest us a strife to our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

⁷ Restore us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

⁸ Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

⁹ Thou didst prepare room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

¹⁰ The hills were covered with its shadow, and its boughs were like the goodly cedars.¹

1. goodly...: Heb. cedars of God

¹¹ She sent out her boughs to the sea, and her branches to the river.

¹² Why hast thou then broke down her hedges, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck her?

¹³ The boar from the forest doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.

¹⁴ Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;

¹⁵ And the vineyard which thy right hand planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.

¹⁶ It is burnt with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

¹⁷ Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.

¹⁸ So will we not go back from thee: revive us, and we will call upon thy name.

¹⁹ Restore us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.