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1 Listen, Shepherd, Israel's Shepherd - get all your Joseph sheep together. Throw beams of light from your dazzling throne
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<<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Lilies of the Covenant." A Psalm by Asaph.>> Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, You who lead Joseph like a flock, You who sit above 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 and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might, Come to save us.
3 God, come back! Smile your blessing smile: That will be our salvation.
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Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, And we will 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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Yahweh God of hosts, How long will you be angry against the prayer 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, And given them tears to drink in large measure.
6 You make us look ridiculous to our friends; our enemies poke fun day after day.
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You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.
7 God of the angel armies, come back! Smile your blessing smile: That will be our salvation.
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Turn us again, God of hosts. Cause your face to shine, And we will be saved.
8 Remember how you brought a young vine from Egypt, cleared out the brambles and briers and planted your very own vineyard?
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You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.
9 You prepared the good earth, you planted her roots deep; the vineyard filled the land.
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You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.
10 Your vine soared high and shaded the mountains, even dwarfing the giant cedars.
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The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God's cedars.
11 Your vine ranged west to the Sea, east to the River.
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It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River.
12 So why do you no longer protect your vine? Trespassers pick its grapes at will;
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Why have you broken down its walls, So that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
13 Wild pigs crash through and crush it, and the mice nibble away at what's left.
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The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.
14 God of the angel armies, turn our way! Take a good look at what's happened and attend to this vine.
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Turn again, we beg you, God of hosts. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,
15 Care for what you once tenderly planted - the vine you raised from a shoot.
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The stock which your right hand planted, The branch that you made strong for yourself.
16 And those who dared to set it on fire - give them a look that will kill!
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It is burned with fire. It is cut down. They perish at your rebuke.
17 Then take the hand of your once-favorite child, the child you raised to adulthood.
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Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, On the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
18 We will never turn our back on you; breathe life into our lungs so we can shout your name!
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So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.
19 God, God of the angel armies, come back! Smile your blessing smile: That will be our salvation.
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Turn us again, Yahweh God of hosts. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.