Verse 1
Listen, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock; you who dwell between the cherubim, shine forth.
Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
Verse 2
Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your strength, and come and save us.
Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.
Verse 3
Turn us again, O God, and make your face shine, and we shall be saved.
Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Verse 4
O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
Verse 5
You feed them with the bread of tears and give them tears to drink in great measure.
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
Verse 6
You make us a strife unto our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.
Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
Verse 7
Turn us again, O God of hosts, and make your face shine, and we shall be saved.
Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Verse 8
You have brought a vine out of Egypt; you have cast out the nations, and planted it.
Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
Verse 9
You prepared room before it, and caused it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
Verse 10
The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and its boughs were like the majestic cedars.
The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
Verse 11
It sent out its boughs unto the sea, and its branches unto the river.
She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Verse 12
Why have you then broken down its hedges, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
Verse 13
The boar out of the woods destroys it, and the wild beasts of the field devour it.
The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Verse 14
Return, we beseech you, O God of hosts; look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
Verse 15
And the vineyard which your right hand has planted, and the branch that you made strong for yourself.
And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
Verse 16
It is burned with fire, it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.
It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
Verse 17
Let your hand be upon the man of your right hand, upon the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself.
Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
Verse 18
So we will not turn back from you; revive us, and we will call upon your name.
So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
Verse 19
Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause your face to shine, and we shall be saved.
Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.