1 To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim-eduth, A Psalm of Asaph.
2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come
3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
4 O
5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
9 Thou preparedst
10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof
11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
12 Why hast thou
13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch
16 It is
17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man
18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
19 Turn us again, O