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 How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts! ♦︎
My soul has a desire and longing to enter the courts of the Lord;
my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God.
2 The sparrow has found her a house
and the swallow a nest where she may lay her young: ♦︎
at your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God.
3 Blessed are they who dwell in your house: ♦︎
they will always be praising you.
4 Blessed are those whose strength is in you, ♦︎
in whose heart are the highways to Zion,
5 Who going through the barren valley find there a spring, ♦︎
and the early rains will clothe it with blessing.
6 They will go from strength to strength ♦︎
and appear before God in Zion.
7 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer; ♦︎
listen, O God of Jacob.
8 Behold our defender, O God, ♦︎
and look upon the face of your anointed.
9 For one day in your courts ♦︎
is better than a thousand.
10 I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God ♦︎
than dwell in the tents of ungodliness.
11 For the Lord God is both sun and shield;
he will give grace and glory; ♦︎
no good thing shall the Lord withhold
from those who walk with integrity.
12 O Lord God of hosts, ♦︎
blessed are those who put their trust in you.