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[1]Hear, O thou Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like sheep: show thy brightness, thou that sittest between the cherubims.
[2]Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come to help us.
[3]Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine that we may be saved.
[4]O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
[5]Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink with great measure.
[6]Thou hast made us a strife unto our neighbors, and our enemies laugh at us among themselves.
[7]Turn us again, O God of hosts: cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
[8]Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
[9]Thou madest room for it, and didst cause it to take root, and it filled the land.
[10]The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
[11]She stretched out her branches unto the sea, and her boughs unto the river.
[12]Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they, which pass by the way, have plucked her?
[13]The wild bore out of the wood hath destroyed it, and the wild beasts of the field have eaten it up.
[14]Return we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven and behold and visit this vine,
[15]And the vineyard, that thy right hand hath planted, and the young vine, which thou madest strong for thyself.
[16]It is burned with fire and cut down: and they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
[17]Let thine hand be upon the man of thy right hand , and upon the son of man , whom thou madest strong for thine own self.
[18]So will not we go back from thee: revive thou us, and we shall call upon thy name.
[19]Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts: cause thy face to shine and we shall be saved.
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