Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; ^athou that dwellest between the cherubims, ^bshine forth. ² Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us. ³ Turn ^cus again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. ⁴ O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? 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 d}Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

⁸ Thou hast brought ^ea vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. ⁹ Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. ¹⁰ The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. ¹¹ She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches ^funto the river. ¹² Why hast thou then ^gbroken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? ¹³ The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. ¹⁴ Return, ⁱwe beseech thee, O God of hosts: ^hlook down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; ¹⁵ And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for ^jthyself. ¹⁶ It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

^{17 k}Let thy hand be upon the ^lman of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself. ¹⁸ So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name. ¹⁹ Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause ^mthy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

Psalm 81