[1] Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you that lead Joseph like a flock; you that dwell between the cherubim, shine forth.
[2] Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up your strength, and come and save us.
[3] Turn us again, O God, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved.
[4] O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
[5] You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure.
[6] You make us a strife to our neighbors: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
[7] Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved.
[8] You have brought a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the heathen, and planted it.
[9] You prepared room before it, and did cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
[10] The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
[11] She sent out her boughs to the sea, and her branches to the river.
[12] Why have you then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
[13] The boar out of the wood does waste it, and the wild beast of the field does devour it.
[14] Return, we beseech you, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
[15] And the vineyard which your right hand has planted, and the branch that you made strong for yourself.
[16] It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.
[17] Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
[18] So will not we go back from you: quicken us, and we will call on your name.
[19] Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved.
