Psalms

¹Hear 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. 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.