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| [1]Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, who guidest Joseph like a flock; thou who sittest upon the cherubs, manifest thyself; |
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| [2]before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up thy power, and come to deliver us. |
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| [3]Turn us, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be delivered. |
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| [4]O Lord God of hosts, how long art thou angry with the prayer of thy servant? |
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| [5]Thou wilt feed us with bread of tears; and wilt cause us to drink tears by measure. |
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| [6]Thou has made us a strife to our neighbours; and our enemies have mocked at us. |
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| [7]Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. Pause. |
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| [8]Thou hast transplanted a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. |
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| [9]Thou madest a way before it, and didst cause its roots to strike, and the land was filled with it. |
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| [10]Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots equalled the goodly cedars. |
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| [11]It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river. |
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| [12]Wherefore hast thou broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it? |
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| [13]The boar out of the wood has laid it waste, and the wild beast has devoured it. |
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| [14]O God of hosts, turn, we pray thee: look on us from heaven, and behold and visit this vine; |
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| [15]and restore that which thy right hand has planted: and look on the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself. |
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| [16]It is burnt with fire and dug up: they shall perish at the rebuke of thy presence. |
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| [17]Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, and upon the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself. |
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| [18]So will we not depart from thee: thou shalt quicken us, and we will call upon thy name. |
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| [19]Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and make thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. |
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