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1 | Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like
a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine
forth. |
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2 | Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength,
and come and save us. |
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3 | Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we
shall be saved. |
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4 | O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the
prayer of thy people? |
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5 | Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them
tears to drink in great measure. |
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6 | Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies
laugh among themselves. |
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7 | Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine;
and we shall be saved. |
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8 | Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the
heathen, and planted it. |
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9 | Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take
deep root, and it filled the land. |
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10 | The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs
thereof were like the goodly cedars. |
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11 | She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto
the river. |
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12 | Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they
which pass by the way do pluck her? |
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13 | The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of
the field doth devour it. |
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14 | Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from
heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; |
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15 | And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the
branch that thou madest strong for thyself. |
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16 | It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the
rebuke of thy countenance. |
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17 | Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son
of man whom thou madest strong for thyself. |
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18 | So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call
upon thy name. |
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19 | Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine;
and we shall be saved. |
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