Hear Us, O Shepherd of Israel 1 UST God, you are like a shepherd to the people of Israel, so please listen to me. You lead the descendants of Joseph the way a shepherd leads his flock. You were present with us in your temple above the statues of the cherubim; reveal your glory to us again! BSB BSB: For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm of Asaph. Hear us, O Shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock; You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth
2 UST Just as you moved powerfully through the wilderness right ahead of the tribes of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, come powerfully once again and save us. BSB BSB: before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Rally Your mighty power and come to save us.
3 UST God, make us strong again. Regard us favorably and save us. BSB BSB: Restore us, O God, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
4 UST Yahweh, you are the God who commands the heavenly armies. You have been angry with us, and so you have not been doing what we ask when we pray to you. But please now answer our prayers. BSB BSB: O LORD God of Hosts, how long will Your anger smolder against the prayers of Your people?
5 UST You have caused us to experience constant sorrow. It feels as if you are punishing us three times as much as we deserve. BSB BSB: You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
6 UST The nations around us have become hostile to us, and our enemies make fun of us. BSB BSB: You make us contend with our neighbors; our enemies mock us.
7 UST God, you who command the heavenly armies, make us strong again! Regard us favorably and save us. BSB BSB: Restore us, O God of Hosts, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
8 UST You brought your people out of Egypt as if you were transplanting a vine from there. You forced other nations to leave this land and you allowed your people to settle in it, as if you were planting that vine here. BSB BSB: You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.
9 UST You removed the foreign nations, just as a farmer clears the ground for a new plant. This enabled your people to become a strong nation that occupied the entire country. BSB BSB: You cleared the ground for it, and it took root and filled the land.
10 UST It was as if that vine became so large that its shadow darkened the mountains and its branches were like great cedar trees. BSB BSB: The mountains were covered by its shade, and the mighty cedars with its branches.
11 UST They controlled the territory from the Great Sea in the west to the Euphrates River in the east. BSB BSB: It sent out its branches to the Sea, and its shoots toward the River.
12 UST But now you have allowed enemies to invade and conquer us, as if you had torn down a fence that protected that vine, so that everyone who walked past it could take whatever fruit they wanted from it. BSB BSB: Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?
13 UST Those enemies have destroyed the country, as if a wild boar had chewed up that vine and wild animals ate what remained. BSB BSB: The boar from the forest ravages it, and the creatures of the field feed upon it.
14 UST God, commander of the heavenly armies, please help us again! Look down from heaven and see what is happening to us! Come and care for your people, who are like a vine that you planted BSB BSB: Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—
15 UST and worked hard to make sure that it would grow well. Your people are also like your own son whom you helped grow up to be strong. BSB BSB: the root Your right hand has planted, the son You have raised up for Yourself.
16 UST But now, because you do not regard them favorably, their enemies are destroying them as if someone had cut down that vine and burned it. BSB BSB: Your vine has been cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.
17 UST Even though we are human, we are like your own son whom you helped grow up to be strong, so please help us with your power. Restore us to a position of honor. BSB BSB: Let Your hand be upon the man at Your right hand, on the son of man You have raised up for Yourself.
18 UST Then we will not worship other gods again. Give us new life, and we will worship only you. BSB BSB: Then we will not turn away from You; revive us, and we will call on Your name.
19 UST Yahweh, the God who commands the heavenly armies, make us strong again! Regard us favorably and save us. BSB BSB: Restore us, O LORD God of Hosts; cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
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