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Revised Standard Version RSV
1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
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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 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and 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 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
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Restore us, O God; let thy face shine, that we may be saved!
4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
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O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry with thy people's prayers?
5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
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Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in full measure.
6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
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Thou dost make us the scorn of our neighbors; and our enemies laugh among themselves.
7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
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Restore us, O God of hosts; let thy face shine, that we may be saved!
8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
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Thou didst bring a vine out of Egypt; thou didst drive out the nations and plant it.
9 Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
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Thou didst clear the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land.
10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
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The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches;
11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
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it sent out its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the River.
12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
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Why then hast thou broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
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The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it.
14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
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Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine,
15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
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the stock which thy right hand planted.
16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
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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 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
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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 So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
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Then we will never turn back from thee; give us life, and we will call on thy name!
19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
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Restore us, O LORD God of hosts! let thy face shine, that we may be saved!
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