2. Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy strength, and come to our deliverance.
3. O God restore us; and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
4. Jehovah, God of hosts, how long will thine anger smoke against the prayer of thy people?
5. Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure:
6. Thou hast made us a strife unto our neighbours, and our enemies mock among themselves.
7. Restore us, O God of hosts; and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
8. Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt; thou didst cast out the nations, and plant it:
9. Thou preparedst space before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land;
10. The mountains were covered with its shadow, and the branches thereof were like cedars of ·God
11. It sent out its boughs unto the sea, and its shoots unto the river.
12. Why hast thou broken down its fences, so that all who pass by the way do pluck it?