{To the Chanter, upon Shoshannim, a Psalm of Asaph} Hear, O thou shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Jacob like a flock of sheep; show thyself, thou that sittest upon the Cherubim.

Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

Turn us again, O God: show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.

Let thy hand be upon the man of thy righthand, and upon the son of man, whom thou madest so strong for thine own self.

Turn us again, thou God of hosts; show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.

Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh; stir up thy power, and come help us.

O LORD God of Hosts, how long wilt thou be angry over the prayer of thy people?

Turn thee again, thou God of hosts, look down from heaven, behold and visit this vine,

and the place of the vineyard that thy righthand hath planted, and the son whom thou madest so strong for thyself.

And so will not we go back from thee; O let us live, and we shall call upon thy name.

Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, yea thou hast given them plenteousness of tears to drink.

Thou madest room for it, and caused it to take root, so that it filled the land.

Why hast thou then broken down her hedge, that all they which go by, pluck off her grapes?

She stretched out her branches unto the sea, and her boughs unto the river.

Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts; show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.

The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedar-trees.

The wild boar out of the wood hath rooted it up, and the beasts of the field have devoured it.

It is burnt with fire, and cut down; O let them perish at the rebuke of thy wrath.

Thou hast made us a very strife unto our neighbours, and our enemies laugh us to scorn.