Dual Panel1For the leader: set to “Lilies”: a testimony: for Asaph: a psalm HEAR us, Shepherd of Israel, leading Joseph like a flock. Shine forth, as you sit enthroned on the cherubim.
2Leading Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, rouse your might and come to our rescue.
3God, restore us, and make your face shine on us, that we may be saved.
4LORD God of Hosts, how long will you fume at your people's prayer?
5You have made sorrow their daily bread and copious tears their drink.
6You have made us an object of contempt to our neighbours, and a laughing-stock to our enemies.
7God of Hosts, restore us, and make your face shine on us, that we may be saved.
8You brought a vine from Egypt; you drove out nations and planted it;
9you cleared the ground for it, so that it struck root and filled the land.
10The mountains were covered with its shade, and its branches were like those of mighty cedars.
11It put out boughs all the way to the sea, its shoots as far as the river.
12Why have you broken down the vineyard wall so that every passer-by can pluck its fruit?
13The wild boar from the thicket gnaws it, and wild creatures of the countryside feed on it.
14God of Hosts, turn to us, we pray; look down from heaven and see. Tend this vine,
15this stock which your right hand has planted.
16May those who set it on fire and cut it down perish before your angry look.
17Let your hand rest on the one at your right side, the one whom you have made strong for your service.
18Then we shall not turn back from you; grant us new life, and we shall invoke you by name.
19LORD God of Hosts, restore us, and make your face shine on us, that we may be saved.