1 Hear, O Shepherd of Israel, ♦︎
you that led Joseph like a flock;
2 Shine forth, you that are enthroned upon the cherubim, ♦︎
before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh.
3 Stir up your mighty strength ♦︎
and come to our salvation.
4 Turn us again, O God; ♦︎
show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved.
5 O Lord God of hosts, ♦︎
how long will you be angry at your peoples prayer?
6 You feed them with the bread of tears; ♦︎
you give them abundance of tears to drink.
7 You have made us the derision of our neighbours, ♦︎
and our enemies laugh us to scorn.
8 Turn us again, O God of hosts; ♦︎
show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved.
9 You brought a vine out of Egypt; ♦︎
you drove out the nations and planted it.
10 You made room around it, ♦︎
and when it had taken root, it filled the land.
11 The hills were covered with its shadow ♦︎
and the cedars of God by its boughs.
12 It stretched out its branches to the Sea ♦︎
and its tendrils to the River.
13 Why then have you broken down its wall, ♦︎
so that all who pass by pluck off its grapes?
14 The wild boar out of the wood tears it off, ♦︎
and all the insects of the field devour it.
15 Turn again, O God of hosts, ♦︎
look down from heaven and behold;
16 Cherish this vine which your right hand has planted, ♦︎
and the branch that you made so strong for yourself.
17 Let those who burnt it with fire, who cut it down, ♦︎
perish at the rebuke of your countenance.
18 Let your hand be upon the man at your right hand, ♦︎
the son of man you made so strong for yourself.
19 And so will we not go back from you; ♦︎
give us life, and we shall call upon your name.
20 Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts; ♦︎
show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved.
1 Sing merrily to God our strength, ♦︎
shout for joy to the God of Jacob.
2 Take up the song and sound the timbrel, ♦︎
the tuneful lyre with the harp.
3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, ♦︎
as at the full moon, upon our solemn feast day.
4 For this is a statute for Israel, ♦︎
a law of the God of Jacob,
5 The charge he laid on the people of Joseph, ♦︎
when they came out of the land of Egypt.
6 I heard a voice I did not know, that said: ♦︎
I eased their shoulder from the burden;
their hands were set free from bearing the load.
7 You called upon me in trouble and I delivered you; ♦︎
I answered you from the secret place of thunder
and proved you at the waters of Meribah.
8 Hear, O my people, and I will admonish you: ♦︎
O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
9 There shall be no strange god among you; ♦︎
you shall not worship a foreign god.
10 I am the Lord your God,
who brought you up from the land of Egypt; ♦︎
open your mouth wide and I shall fill it.
11 But my people would not hear my voice ♦︎
and Israel would not obey me.
12 So I sent them away in the stubbornness of their hearts, ♦︎
and let them walk after their own counsels.
13 O that my people would listen to me, ♦︎
that Israel would walk in my ways!
14 Then I should soon put down their enemies ♦︎
and turn my hand against their adversaries.
15 Those who hate the Lord would be humbled before him, ♦︎
and their punishment would last for ever.
16 But Israel would I feed with the finest wheat ♦︎
and with honey from the rock would I satisfy them.