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