Restore Us, O God

To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Testimony. Of Asaph, a Psalm.

¹Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,

you who lead Joseph like a flock.

You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.

²Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh,

stir up your might

and come to save us!

³Restore us,1 O God;

let your face shine, that we may be saved!

⁴O Lord God of hosts,

how long will you be angry with your people's prayers?

⁵You have fed them with the bread of tears

and given them tears to drink in full measure.

⁶You make us an object of contention for our neighbors,

and our enemies laugh among themselves.

⁷Restore us, O God of hosts;

let your face shine, that we may 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 shade,

the mighty cedars with its branches.

¹¹It sent out its branches to the sea

and its shoots to the River.2

¹²Why then have you broken down its walls,

so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?

¹³The boar from the forest ravages it,

and all that move in the field feed on it.

¹⁴Turn again, O God of hosts!

Look down from heaven, and see;

have regard for this vine,

¹⁵the stock that your right hand planted,

and for the son whom you made strong for yourself.

¹⁶They have burned it with fire; they have cut it down;

may they perish at the rebuke of your face!

¹⁷But let your hand be on the man of your right hand,

the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!

¹⁸Then we shall not turn back from you;

give us life, and we will call upon your name!

¹⁹Restore us, O Lord God of hosts!

Let your face shine, that we may be saved!