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[1] GIVE ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that sittest upon the cherubim, shine forth.
[2] Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh show forth thy strength and come and save us.
[3] Guide us again, O mighty God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
[4] O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
[5] Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
[6] Thou hast made us a jest to our neighbors; and our enemies laugh among themselves.
[7] Guide us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
[8] Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; thou hast cast out the heathen and planted it.
[9] Thou didst prepare the ground and caused it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
[10] The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the vine-shoots thereof were upon the cedars of God.
[11] It sent out its roots unto the sea, and its branches to the rivers.
[12] Why hast thou then broken down its hedges, so that all they who pass by the way tread over it?
[13] The boar of the forest devours it, and the wild beasts of the field feed upon it.
[14] Return we beseech thee, O God of hosts; look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine
[15] And the vineyard which thy right hand has planted and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
[16] It is burned with fire; it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
[17] Let thy right hand be upon the man and upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
[18] So will we not go back from thee; quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
[19] Guide us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
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