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