Psalms

¹ Listen, Shepherd, Israel's Shepherd— get all your Joseph sheep together. Throw beams of light from your dazzling throne

² can see where they're going. Get out of bed—you've slept long enough! Come on the run before it's too late.

³ Smile your blessing smile: That will be our salvation.

⁴ how long will you smolder like a sleeping volcano while your people call for fire and brimstone?

⁵ bucket after bucket of salty tears to drink.

⁶ our enemies poke fun day after day.

⁷ Smile your blessing smile: That will be our salvation.

⁸ cleared out the brambles and briers and planted your very own vineyard?

⁹ you planted her roots deep; the vineyard filled the land.

¹⁰ even dwarfing the giant cedars.

¹¹ east to the River.

¹² Trespassers pick its grapes at will;

¹³ and the mice nibble away at what's left.

¹⁴ Take a good look at what's happened and attend to this vine.

¹⁵ the vine you raised from a shoot.

¹⁶ give them a look that will kill!

¹⁷ the child you raised to adulthood.

¹⁸ breathe life into our lungs so we can shout your name!

¹⁹ Smile your blessing smile: That will be our salvation.