The Message Bible MSG
Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 Listen, Shepherd, Israel's Shepherd - get all your Joseph sheep together. Throw beams of light from your dazzling throne
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To the Overseer. -- `On the Lilies.' A testimony of Asaph. -- A Psalm. Shepherd of Israel, give ear, Leading Joseph as a flock, Inhabiting the cherubs -- 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, Wake up Thy might, and come for our salvation.
3 God, come back! Smile your blessing smile: That will be our salvation.
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O God, cause us to turn back, And cause Thy face to shine, and we are 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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Jehovah, God of Hosts, till when? Thou hast burned against the prayer of Thy people.
5 You put us on a diet of tears, bucket after bucket of salty tears to drink.
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Thou hast caused them to eat bread of tears, And causest them to drink With tears a third time.
6 You make us look ridiculous to our friends; our enemies poke fun day after day.
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Thou makest us a strife to our neighbors, And our enemies mock at it.
7 God of the angel armies, come back! Smile your blessing smile: That will be our salvation.
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God of Hosts, turn us back, And cause Thy face to shine, and we are 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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A vine out of Egypt Thou dost bring, Thou dost cast out nations, and plantest it.
9 You prepared the good earth, you planted her roots deep; the vineyard filled the land.
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Thou hast looked before it, and dost root it, And it filleth the land,
10 Your vine soared high and shaded the mountains, even dwarfing the giant cedars.
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Covered have been hills [with] its shadow, And its boughs [are] cedars of God.
11 Your vine ranged west to the Sea, east to the River.
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It sendeth forth its branches unto the sea, And unto the river its sucklings.
12 So why do you no longer protect your vine? Trespassers pick its grapes at will;
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Why hast Thou broken down its hedges, And all passing by the way have plucked it?
13 Wild pigs crash through and crush it, and the mice nibble away at what's left.
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A boar out of the forest doth waste it, And a wild beast of the fields consumeth 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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God of Hosts, turn back, we beseech Thee, Look from heaven, and see, and inspect this vine,
15 Care for what you once tenderly planted - the vine you raised from a shoot.
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And the root that Thy right hand planted, And the branch Thou madest strong for Thee,
16 And those who dared to set it on fire - give them a look that will kill!
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Burnt with fire -- cut down, From the rebuke of Thy face they perish.
17 Then take the hand of your once-favorite child, the child you raised to adulthood.
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Let Thy hand be on the man of Thy right hand, On the son of man Thou hast strengthened for Thyself.
18 We will never turn our back on you; breathe life into our lungs so we can shout your name!
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And we do not go back from Thee, Thou dost revive us, and in Thy name we call.
19 God, God of the angel armies, come back! Smile your blessing smile: That will be our salvation.
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O Jehovah, God of Hosts, turn us back, Cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved!
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.
Young's Literal Translation is in the public domain.