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1 Please listen, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph’s descendants like a flock. O God, enthroned above the cherubim, display your radiant glory
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Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
2 to Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Show us your mighty power. Come to rescue us!
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Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.
3 Turn us again to yourself, O God. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved.
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Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
4 O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, how long will you be angry with our prayers?
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O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
5 You have fed us with sorrow and made us drink tears by the bucketful.
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Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
6 You have made us the scorn of neighboring nations. Our enemies treat us as a joke.
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Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
7 Turn us again to yourself, O God of Heaven’s Armies. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved.
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Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
8 You brought us from Egypt like a grapevine; you drove away the pagan nations and transplanted us into your land.
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Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
9 You cleared the ground for us, and we took root and filled the land.
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Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
10 Our shade covered the mountains; our branches covered the mighty cedars.
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The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
11 We spread our branches west to the Mediterranean Sea; our shoots spread east to the Euphrates River.
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She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
12 But now, why have you broken down our walls so that all who pass by may steal our fruit?
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Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
13 The wild boar from the forest devours it, and the wild animals feed on it.
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The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
14 Come back, we beg you, O God of Heaven’s Armies. Look down from heaven and see our plight. Take care of this grapevine
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Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
15 that you yourself have planted, this son you have raised for yourself.
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And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
16 For we are chopped up and burned by our enemies. May they perish at the sight of your frown.
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It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
17 Strengthen the man you love, the son of your choice.
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Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
18 Then we will never abandon you again. Revive us so we can call on your name once more.
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So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
19 Turn us again to yourself, O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved.
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Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
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