Revised Standard Version RSV
Good News Translation GNT
1 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
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Listen to us, O Shepherd of Israel; hear us, leader of your flock. Seated on your throne above the winged creatures,
2 before E'phraim and Benjamin and Manas'seh! Stir up thy might, and come to save us!
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reveal yourself to the tribes of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Show us your strength; come and save us!
3 Restore us, O God; let thy face shine, that we may be saved!
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Bring us back, O God! Show us your mercy, and we will be saved!
4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry with thy people's prayers?
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How much longer, Lord God Almighty, will you be angry with your people's prayers?
5 Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in full measure.
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You have given us sorrow to eat, a large cup of tears to drink.
6 Thou dost make us the scorn of our neighbors; and our enemies laugh among themselves.
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You let the surrounding nations fight over our land; our enemies insult us.
7 Restore us, O God of hosts; let thy face shine, that we may be saved!
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Bring us back, Almighty God! Show us your mercy, and we will be saved!
8 Thou didst bring a vine out of Egypt; thou didst drive out the nations and plant it.
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You brought a grapevine out of Egypt; you drove out other nations and planted it in their land.
9 Thou didst clear the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land.
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You cleared a place for it to grow; its roots went deep, and it spread out over the whole land.
10 The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches;
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It covered the hills with its shade; its branches overshadowed the giant cedars.
11 it sent out its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the River.
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It extended its branches to the Mediterranean Sea and as far as the Euphrates River.
12 Why then hast thou broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
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Why did you break down the fences around it? Now anyone passing by can steal its grapes;
13 The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it.
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wild hogs trample it down, and wild animals feed on it.
14 Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine,
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Turn to us, Almighty God! Look down from heaven at us; come and save your people!
15 the stock which thy right hand planted.
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Come and save this grapevine that you planted, this young vine you made grow so strong!
16 They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance!
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Our enemies have set it on fire and cut it down; look at them in anger and destroy them!
17 But let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself!
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Preserve and protect the people you have chosen, the nation you made so strong.
18 Then we will never turn back from thee; give us life, and we will call on thy name!
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We will never turn away from you again; keep us alive, and we will praise you.
19 Restore us, O LORD God of hosts! let thy face shine, that we may be saved!
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Bring us back, Lord God Almighty. Show us your mercy, and we will be saved.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.