Hear Us, O Shepherd of Israel

1To him that excelleth on Shoshannim Eduth. A Psalme committed to Asaph. Heare, O thou Shepheard of Israel, thou that leadest Ioseph like sheepe: shewe thy brightnes, thou that sittest betweene the Cherubims.

2Before Ephraim and Beniamin and Manasseh stirre vp thy strength, and come to helpe vs.

3Turne vs againe, O God, and cause thy face to shine that we may be saued.

4O Lord God of hostes, how long wilt thou be angrie against the prayer of thy people?

5Thou hast fedde them with the bread of teares, and giuen them teares to drinke with great measure.

6Thou hast made vs a strife vnto our neighbours, and our enemies laugh at vs among themselues.

7Turne vs againe, O God of hostes: cause thy face to shine, and we shalbe saued.

8Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

9Thou madest roume for it, and didest cause it to take roote, and it filled the land.

10The mountaines were couered with the shadowe of it, and the boughes thereof were like the goodly cedars.

11Shee stretched out her branches vnto the Sea, and her boughes vnto the Riuer.

12Why hast thou then broken downe her hedges, so that all they, which passe by the way, haue plucked her?

13The wilde bore out of the wood hath destroyed it, and the wilde beastes of the fielde haue eaten it vp.

14Returne we beseech thee, O God of hostes: looke downe from heauen and beholde and visite this vine,

15And the vineyard, that thy right hand hath planted, and the young vine, which thou madest strong for thy selfe.

16It is burnt with fire and cut downe: and they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

17Let thine hande be vpon the man of thy right hande, and vpon the sonne of man, whome thou madest strong for thine owne selfe.

18So will not we goe backe from thee: reuiue thou vs, and we shall call vpon thy Name.

19Turne vs againe, O Lorde God of hostes: cause thy face to shine and we shalbe saued.