| King James Bible | New Living Translation |
| 1To 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. | 1Please listen, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph’s descendants like a flock. O God, enthroned above the cherubim, display your radiant glory |
| 2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us. | 2to Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Show us your mighty power. Come to rescue us! |
| 3Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. | 3Turn us again to yourself, O God. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved. |
| 4O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? | 4O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, how long will you be angry with our prayers? |
| 5Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure. | 5You have fed us with sorrow and made us drink tears by the bucketful. |
| 6Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves. | 6You have made us the scorn of neighboring nations. Our enemies treat us as a joke. |
| 7Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. | 7Turn us again to yourself, O God of Heaven’s Armies. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved. |
| 8Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. | 8You brought us from Egypt like a grapevine; you drove away the pagan nations and transplanted us into your land. |
| 9Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. | 9You cleared the ground for us, and we took root and filled the land. |
| 10The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. | 10Our shade covered the mountains; our branches covered the mighty cedars. |
| 11She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river. | 11We spread our branches west to the Mediterranean Sea; our shoots spread east to the Euphrates River. |
| 12Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? | 12But now, why have you broken down our walls so that all who pass by may steal our fruit? |
| 13The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. | 13The wild boar from the forest devours it, and the wild animals feed on it. |
| 14Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; | 14Come back, we beg you, O God of Heaven’s Armies. Look down from heaven and see our plight. Take care of this grapevine |
| 15And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself. | 15that you yourself have planted, this son you have raised for yourself. |
| 16It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. | 16For we are chopped up and burned by our enemies. May they perish at the sight of your frown. |
| 17Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself. | 17Strengthen the man you love, the son of your choice. |
| 18So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name. | 18Then we will never abandon you again. Revive us so we can call on your name once more. |
| 19Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. | 19Turn us again to yourself, O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved. |
| King James Bible, text courtesy of BibleProtector.com. | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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