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[1]To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim Eduth, A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubim, shine forth. |
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[2]Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us. |
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[3]Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. |
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[4]O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? |
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[5]Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure. |
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[6]Thou makest us a strife to our neighbors: and our enemies laugh among themselves. |
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[7]Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. |
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[8]Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. |
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[9]Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. |
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[10]The hills were covered with the shade of it, and its boughs were like the goodly cedars. |
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[11]She sent out her boughs to the sea, and her branches to the river. |
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[12]Why hast thou then broke down her hedges, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck her? |
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[13]The boar from the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. |
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[14]Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; |
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[15]And the vineyard which thy right hand planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself. |
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[16]It is burnt with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. |
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[17]Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself. |
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[18]So will we not go back from thee: revive us, and we will call upon thy name. |
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[19]Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. |