1To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Testimony. Of Asaph, a Psalm. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth. (خر 25:22; 1صم 4:4; 2صم 6:2; مز 50:1; مز 50:2; مز 60:1; مز 77:20; مز 78:67; مز 81:5; مز 95:7; مز 99:1)2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might and come to save us! (عد 2:18; مز 35:23; مز 118:14; مز 118:21)3Restore us,[1] O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved! (عد 6:25; مز 4:6; مز 60:1; مز 80:19; مز 85:4; مرا 5:21)4O Lord God of hosts, how long will you be angry with your people’s prayers? (مز 59:5; مز 74:10; مز 79:5)5You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure. (1مل 22:27; مز 42:3; مز 102:9; إش 30:20)6You make us an object of contention for our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves. (مز 44:13)7Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! (مز 80:3)8You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it. (مز 44:2; إش 5:1; إش 27:2; إر 2:21; إر 12:10; حز 17:6; مت 21:33; مر 12:1; لو 20:9)9You cleared the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land. (يش 24:12)10The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches.11It sent out its branches to the sea and its shoots to the River.[2] (مز 72:8)12Why then have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit? (مز 89:40; إش 5:5)13The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it. (إر 5:6)14Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine, (إش 63:15)15the stock that your right hand planted, and for the son whom you made strong for yourself.16They have burned it with fire; they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of your face! (مز 39:11; مز 76:6; إش 33:12)17But let your hand be on the man of your right hand, the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself! (مز 89:21)18Then we shall not turn back from you; give us life, and we will call upon your name! (مز 71:20)19Restore us, O Lord God of hosts! Let your face shine, that we may be saved! (مز 80:3; مز 80:7)