upon Shoshannimeduth, A Psalm of Asaph.

Give ear,
O Shepherd of Israel,
thou that leadest Joseph like a flock;
thou that dwellest between the cherubims,
shine forth.
² Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh
stir up thy strength,
and come and save us.
³ Turn us again, O God,
and cause thy face to shine;
and we shall be saved.

⁴ O LORD God of hosts,
how long [until when]
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 turn us again, O God of hosts,
and cause thy face to shine;
and we shall be saved.

⁸ Thou hast bought a 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 [her roots take 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 unto the river.
¹² Why hast thou then broken 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, 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 [son] that thou madest strong for thyself.
¹⁶ It is burned with fire,
it is cut down:
they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
¹⁷ Let thy hand be upon the man 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 thy face to shine;
and we shall be saved.

* NOTE: On Opening and Closing Comments in the Psalms.
[Some commentators take the Psalm in Habakkuk 3 to be a standard model for the Psalms.
Habakkuk's Psalm begins with the name of the composer (Habakkuk) and a musical notation ("upon Shigionoth").
It closes with a dedication or a "send to" notice ("To the chief singer on my stringed instruments").
I have arranged similar material, where it is found in the Psalter, in accord with the model in Habakkuk.]