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