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1 | Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for Asaph himself. | Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth. |
2 | Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the God of Jacob. | Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us. |
3 | Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp. | Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. |
4 | Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your solemnity. | O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? |
5 | For it is a commandment in Israel, and a judgment to the God of Jacob. | Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure. |
6 | He ordained it for a testimony in Joseph, when he came out of the land of Egypt: he heard a tongue which he knew not. | Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves. |
7 | He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in baskets. | Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. |
8 | Thou calledst upon me in affliction, and I delivered thee: I heard thee in the secret place of tempest: I proved thee at the waters of contradiction. | Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. |
9 | Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me, | Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. |
10 | there shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange god. | The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. |
11 | For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. | She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river. |
12 | But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me. | Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? |
13 | So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions. | The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. |
14 | If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways: | Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; |
15 | I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on them that troubled them. | And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself. |
16 | The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be for ever. | It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. |
17 | And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock. | Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself. |
18 | So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name. | |
19 | Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. |