New Living Translation NLT
Young's Literal Translation YLT
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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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 to Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Show us your mighty power. Come to rescue us!
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Before Ephraim, and Benjamin, and Manasseh, Wake up Thy might, and come for our salvation.
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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O God, cause us to turn back, And cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved.
4 O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, how long will you be angry with our prayers?
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Jehovah, God of Hosts, till when? Thou hast burned 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 hast caused them to eat bread of tears, And causest them to drink With tears a third time.
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 to our neighbors, And our enemies mock at it.
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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God of Hosts, turn us back, And cause Thy face to shine, and we are 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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A vine out of Egypt Thou dost bring, Thou dost cast out nations, and plantest it.
9 You cleared the ground for us, and we took root and filled the land.
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Thou hast looked before it, and dost root it, And it filleth the land,
10 Our shade covered the mountains; our branches covered the mighty cedars.
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Covered have been hills [with] its shadow, And its boughs [are] cedars of God.
11 We spread our branches west to the Mediterranean Sea; our shoots spread east to the Euphrates River.
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It sendeth forth its branches unto the sea, And unto the river its sucklings.
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 broken down its hedges, And all passing by the way have plucked it?
13 The wild boar from the forest devours it, and the wild animals feed on it.
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A boar out of the forest doth waste it, And a wild beast of the fields consumeth 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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God of Hosts, turn back, we beseech Thee, Look from heaven, and see, and inspect this vine,
15 that you yourself have planted, this son you have raised for yourself.
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And the root that Thy right hand planted, And the branch Thou madest strong for Thee,
16 For we are chopped up and burned by our enemies. May they perish at the sight of your frown.
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Burnt with fire -- cut down, From the rebuke of Thy face they perish.
17 Strengthen the man you love, the son of your choice.
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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 Then we will never abandon you again. Revive us so we can call on your name once more.
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And we do not go back from Thee, Thou dost revive us, and in Thy name we call.
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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O Jehovah, God of Hosts, turn us back, Cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved!
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