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- «For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Lilies of the Covenant." A Psalm by Asaph.»
Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine forth.
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- Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us!
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- Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
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- Yahweh God of Armies, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
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- You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
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- You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.
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- Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
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- You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.
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- You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.
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- The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God's cedars.
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- It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River.
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- Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
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- The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.
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- Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,
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- the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself.
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- It's burned with fire. It's cut down. They perish at your rebuke.
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- Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
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- So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.
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- Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
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