1To the leader; upon Shoshannim. A testimony (edut). Of Asaph, a Psalm.
2Shepherd of Israel, give ear, leading Joseph like a flock; you who sit enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.
3Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might, and come for our salvation (yeshuah).
4God, restore us, and cause your face to shine, and we shall be saved.
5YHWH God of hosts (tzevaot), until when will you smoke against the prayer of your people?
6You have fed them with the bread of tears, and made them drink tears in threefold measure.
7You make us a strife to our neighbors, and our enemies mock among themselves.
8God of hosts (tzevaot), restore us, and cause your face to shine, and we shall be saved.
9A vine out of Egypt you brought; you drove out nations, and you planted it.
10You cleared before it, and it took root its roots, and filled the land.
11Mountains were covered with its shadow, and its boughs the cedars of God.
12It sent out its branches to the sea, and to the River its shoots.
13Why have you broken down its fences, so that all who pass by the way pluck it?
14The boar from the forest ravages it, and what moves in the field feeds on it.
15God of hosts (tzevaot), return, please; look down from the heavens and see, and attend to this vine,
16and the stock which your right hand planted, and upon the son you made strong for yourself.
17It is burned with fire, it is cut down; at the rebuke of your face they perish.
18Let your hand be upon the man (ish) of your right hand, upon the son of man (adam) whom you made strong for yourself.
19And we will not turn back from you; revive us, and we will call upon your name.
20YHWH God of hosts (tzevaot), restore us; cause your face to shine, and we shall be saved.