The Message Bible MSG
New International Version NIV
1 Listen, Shepherd, Israel's Shepherd - get all your Joseph sheep together. Throw beams of light from your dazzling throne
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Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth
2 So Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh can see where they're going. Get out of bed - you've slept long enough! Come on the run before it's too late.
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before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh. Awaken your might; come and save us.
3 God, come back! Smile your blessing smile: That will be our salvation.
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Restore us, O God; make your face shine on us, that we may be saved.
4 God, God of the angel armies, how long will you smolder like a sleeping volcano while your people call for fire and brimstone?
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How long, LORD God Almighty, will your anger smolder against the prayers of your people?
5 You put us on a diet of tears, bucket after bucket of salty tears to drink.
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You have fed them with the bread of tears; you have made them drink tears by the bowlful.
6 You make us look ridiculous to our friends; our enemies poke fun day after day.
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You have made us an object of derision to our neighbors, and our enemies mock us.
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