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| [1]GIVE ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that sittest upon the cherubim, shine forth. |
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| [2]Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh show forth thy strength and come and save us. |
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| [3]Guide us again, O mighty 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 hast made us a jest to our neighbors; and our enemies laugh among themselves. |
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| [7]Guide 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 didst prepare the ground and caused it to take deep root, and it filled the land. |
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| [10]The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the vine-shoots thereof were upon the cedars of God. |
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| [11]It sent out its roots unto the sea, and its branches to the rivers. |
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| [12]Why hast thou then broken down its hedges, so that all they who pass by the way tread over it? |
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| [13]The boar of the forest devours it, and the wild beasts of the field feed upon 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 has planted and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself. |
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| [16]It is burned with fire; it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. |
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| [17]Let thy right hand be upon the man and upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself. |
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| [18]So will we not go back from thee; quicken us, and we will call upon thy name. |
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| [19]Guide us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. |
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