NET Bible | King James Bible |
1For the music director; according to the shushan-eduth style; a psalm of Asaph. O shepherd of Israel, pay attention, you who lead Joseph like a flock of sheep! You who sit enthroned above the winged angels, reveal your splendor! | 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. |
2In the sight of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh reveal your power! Come and deliver us! | 2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us. |
3O God, restore us! Smile on us! Then we will be delivered! | 3Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. |
4O LORD God, invincible warrior! How long will you remain angry at your people while they pray to you? | 4O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? |
5You have given them tears as food; you have made them drink tears by the measure. | 5Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure. |
6You have made our neighbors dislike us, and our enemies insult us. | 6Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves. |
7O God, invincible warrior, restore us! Smile on us! Then we will be delivered! | 7Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. |
8You uprooted a vine from Egypt; you drove out nations and transplanted it. | 8Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. |
9You cleared the ground for it; it took root, and filled the land. | 9Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. |
10The mountains were covered by its shadow, the highest cedars by its branches. | 10The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. |
11Its branches reached the Mediterranean Sea, and its shoots the Euphrates River. | 11She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river. |
12Why did you break down its walls, so that all who pass by pluck its fruit? | 12Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? |
13The wild boars of the forest ruin it; the insects of the field feed on it. | 13The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. |
14O God, invincible warrior, come back! Look down from heaven and take notice! Take care of this vine, | 14Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; |
15the root your right hand planted, the shoot you made to grow! | 15And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself. |
16It is burned and cut down. They die because you are displeased with them. | 16It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. |
17May you give support to the one you have chosen, to the one whom you raised up for yourself! | 17Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself. |
18Then we will not turn away from you. Revive us and we will pray to you! | 18So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name. |
19O LORD God, invincible warrior, restore us! Smile on us! Then we will be delivered! | 19Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. |
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