1 | Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou who leadest Joseph like a flock! Thou who art enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth |
2 | before E'phraim and Benjamin and Manas'seh! Stir up thy might, and come to save us! |
3 | Restore us, O God; let thy face shine, that we may be saved! |
4 | O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry with thy people's prayers? |
5 | Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in full measure. |
6 | Thou dost make us the scorn of our neighbors; and our enemies laugh among themselves. |
7 | Restore us, O God of hosts; let thy face shine, that we may be saved! |
8 | Thou didst bring a vine out of Egypt; thou didst drive out the nations and plant it. |
9 | Thou didst clear the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land. |
10 | The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches; |
11 | it sent out its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the River. |
12 | Why then hast thou broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit? |
13 | The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it. |
14 | Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine, |
15 | the stock which thy right hand planted. |
16 | They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance! |
17 | But let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself! |
18 | Then we will never turn back from thee; give us life, and we will call on thy name! |
19 | Restore us, O LORD God of hosts! let thy face shine, that we may be saved! |