Restore Us, O God

To the choirmaster: according to eLilies. A Testimony. Of fAsaph, a Psalm.

¹Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,

you who lead gJoseph like ha flock.

You who are ienthroned upon the cherubim, jshine forth.

²Before kEphraim and Benjamin and Manasseh,

lstir up your might

and mcome to save us!

³nRestore us,1 O God;

olet your face shine, that we may be saved!

⁴O pLord God of hosts,

qhow long will you be angry with your people's prayers?

⁵You have fed them with rthe bread of tears

and given them tears to drink in full measure.

⁶sYou make us an object of contention for our sneighbors,

and our enemies laugh among themselves.

⁷nRestore us, O God of hosts;

let your face shine, that we may be saved!

⁸You brought ta vine out of Egypt;

you udrove out the nations and planted it.

⁹You vcleared the ground for it;

it took deep root and filled the land.

¹⁰The mountains were covered with its shade,

the mighty cedars with its branches.

¹¹It sent out its branches to wthe sea

and its shoots to wthe River.2

¹²Why then have you xbroken down its walls,

so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?

¹³yThe boar from the forest ravages it,

and all that move in the field feed on it.

¹⁴Turn again, O God of hosts!

zLook down from heaven, and see;

have regard for this vine,

¹⁵the stock that your right hand planted,

and for the son whom you made strong for yourself.

¹⁶They have aburned it with fire; they have acut it down;

may they perish at bthe rebuke of your face!

¹⁷But clet your hand be on the man of your right hand,

the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!

¹⁸Then we shall not turn back from you;

dgive us life, and we will call upon your name!

¹⁹eRestore us, O Lord God of hosts!

Let your face shine, that we may be saved!