¹Give ear, shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock; you who sits on the cherubim, shine forth.
²Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, show forth your strength and come and save us.

³Guide us again, mighty god, and cause your face to shine; and we will be saved.

⁴Yahvah, god of hosts, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
⁵You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure.
⁶You have made us a jest to our neighbors; and our enemies laugh among themselves.

⁷Guide us again, god of hosts, and cause your face to shine; and we will be saved.

⁸You have brought a vine out of Egypt; you have cast out the heathen and planted it.
⁹You prepared the ground and caused it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
¹⁰The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and its vine shoots were on the cedars of god.
¹¹It sent out its roots to the sea, and its branches to the rivers.
¹²Why have you then broken down its hedges, so that all who pass by the way tread over it?
¹³The boar of the forest devours it, and the wild animals of the field feed on it.

¹⁴Return, we beg you, god of hosts; look down from the skies, and look, and visit this vine
¹⁵and the vineyard which your right hand has planted, and the branch that you made strong for yourself.
¹⁶It is burned with fire; it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.
¹⁷Let your right hand be on the man and on the son of man, whom you made strong for yourself.
¹⁸So we will not go back from you; quicken us, and we will call on your name.

¹⁹Guide us again, Yahvah, god of hosts, cause your face to shine; and we will be saved.