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 cherubim, reveal your splendor. ²In the sight of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh reveal your power. Come and deliver us.³O God, restore us. Smile on us. Then we will be delivered. ⁴O Lord God of Heaven’s Armies, how long will you remain angry at your people while they pray to you?⁵You have given them tears as food; you have made them drink tears by the measure. ⁶You have made our neighbors dislike us and our enemies insult us.⁷O God of Heaven’s Armies, restore us. Smile on us. Then we will be delivered. ⁸You uprooted a vine from Egypt; you drove out nations and transplanted it.⁹You cleared the ground for it; it took root and filled the land. ¹⁰The mountains were covered by its shadow, the highest cedars by its branches. ¹¹Its branches reached the Mediterranean Sea, and its shoots the Euphrates River.¹²Why did you break down its walls, so that all who pass by pluck its fruit?¹³The wild boars of the forest ruin it; the insects of the field feed on it.¹⁴O God of Heaven’s Armies, come back. Look down from heaven and take notice. Take care of this vine, ¹⁵the root your right hand planted, the shoot you made to grow. ¹⁶It is burned and cut down. May those who did this die because you are displeased with them.¹⁷May you give support to the one you have chosen, to the one whom you raised up for yourself.¹⁸Then we will not turn away from you. Revive us and we will pray to you. ¹⁹O Lord God of Heaven’s Armies, restore us. Smile on us. Then we will be delivered.