¹ {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. ² Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh; stir up thy power, and come help us. ³ Turn us again, O God: show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.

⁴ O LORD God of Hosts, how long wilt thou be angry over the prayer of thy people? ⁵ Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, yea thou hast given them plenteousness of tears to drink. ⁶ Thou hast made us a very strife unto our neighbours, and our enemies laugh us to scorn. ⁷ Turn us again, thou God of hosts; show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.

⁸ Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. ⁹ Thou madest room for it, and caused it to take root, so that it filled the land. ¹⁰ The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedar-trees. ¹¹ She stretched out her branches unto the sea, and her boughs unto the river.

¹² Why hast thou then broken down her hedge, that all they which go by, pluck off her grapes? ¹³ The wild boar out of the wood hath rooted it up, and the beasts of the field have devoured it. ¹⁴ Turn thee again, thou God of hosts, look down from heaven, behold and visit this vine, ¹⁵ and the place of the vineyard that thy righthand hath planted, and the son whom thou madest so strong for thyself. ¹⁶ It is burnt with fire, and cut down; O let them perish at the rebuke of thy wrath. ¹⁷ 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. ¹⁸ And so will not we go back from thee; O let us live, and we shall call upon thy name. ¹⁹ Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts; show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.