1«To the chief Musician upon Shoshannimeduth, A Psalm of Asaph.» Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest [between] the cherubims, shine forth. 2Before Ephraim and Beniamin and Manasseh stirre vp thy strength, and come to helpe vs. 3Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. 4O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? 5Thou hast fedde them with the bread of teares, and giuen them teares to drinke with great measure. 6Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves. 7Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. 8Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. 9Thou madest roume for it, and didest cause it to take roote, and it filled the land. 10The mountaines were couered with the shadowe of it, and the boughes thereof were like the goodly cedars. 11She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river. 12Why hast thou then broken downe her hedges, so that all they, which passe by the way, haue plucked her? 13The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. 14Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; 15And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch [that] thou madest strong for thyself. 16[It is] burned with fire, [it is] cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. 17Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man [whom] thou madest strong for thyself. 18So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name. 19Turne vs againe, O Lorde God of hostes: cause thy face to shine and we shalbe saued.