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¹Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, You who lead Joseph like a flock, You who sit above the cherubim, shine forth.

²Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might, Come to save us.

³Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, And we will be saved.

⁴Yahweh God of hosts, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

⁵You have fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.

⁶You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

⁷Turn us again, God of hosts. Cause your face to shine, And we will be saved.

⁸You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.

⁹You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.

¹⁰The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God`s cedars.

¹¹It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River.

¹²Why have you broken down its walls, So that all those who pass by the way pluck it?

¹³The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.

¹⁴Turn again, we beg you, God of hosts. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,

¹⁵The stock which your right hand planted, The branch that you made strong for yourself.

¹⁶It is burned with fire. It is cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

¹⁷Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, On the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.

¹⁸So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.

¹⁹Turn us again, Yahweh God of hosts. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved. Psalm 81 For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph.