Good News Translation GNT
Revised Standard Version RSV
1 Listen to us, O Shepherd of Israel; hear us, leader of your flock. Seated on your throne above the winged creatures,
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To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Testimony of Asaph. A Psalm. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou who leadest Joseph like a flock! Thou who art enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth
2 reveal yourself to the tribes of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Show us your strength; come and save us!
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before E'phraim and Benjamin and Manas'seh! Stir up thy might, and come to save us!
3 Bring us back, O God! Show us your mercy, and we will be saved!
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Restore us, O God; let thy face shine, that we may be saved!
4 How much longer, Lord God Almighty, will you be angry with your people's prayers?
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O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry with thy people's prayers?
5 You have given us sorrow to eat, a large cup of tears to drink.
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Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in full measure.
6 You let the surrounding nations fight over our land; our enemies insult us.
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Thou dost make us the scorn of our neighbors; and our enemies laugh among themselves.
7 Bring us back, Almighty God! Show us your mercy, and we will be saved!
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Restore us, O God of hosts; let thy face shine, that we may be saved!
8 You brought a grapevine out of Egypt; you drove out other nations and planted it in their land.
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Thou didst bring a vine out of Egypt; thou didst drive out the nations and plant it.
9 You cleared a place for it to grow; its roots went deep, and it spread out over the whole land.
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Thou didst clear the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land.
10 It covered the hills with its shade; its branches overshadowed the giant cedars.
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The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches;
11 It extended its branches to the Mediterranean Sea and as far as the Euphrates River.
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it sent out its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the River.
12 Why did you break down the fences around it? Now anyone passing by can steal its grapes;
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Why then hast thou broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
13 wild hogs trample it down, and wild animals feed on it.
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The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it.
14 Turn to us, Almighty God! Look down from heaven at us; come and save your people!
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Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine,
15 Come and save this grapevine that you planted, this young vine you made grow so strong!
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the stock which thy right hand planted.
16 Our enemies have set it on fire and cut it down; look at them in anger and destroy them!
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They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance!
17 Preserve and protect the people you have chosen, the nation you made so strong.
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But let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself!
18 We will never turn away from you again; keep us alive, and we will praise you.
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Then we will never turn back from thee; give us life, and we will call on thy name!
19 Bring us back, Lord God Almighty. Show us your mercy, and we will be saved.
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Restore us, O LORD God of hosts! let thy face shine, that we may be saved!
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.