I like the Hebrew much better, but here's the English:
| For the conductor, to the roses, a testimony, of Asaph a song. |
| O Shepherd of Israel, hearken, He Who leads Joseph like flocks, He Who dwells between the cherubim, appear. |
| Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh arouse Your might, and it is for You to save us. |
| O God, return us; cause Your countenance to shine and we shall be saved. |
| O Lord God of Hosts, how long have You been wroth at Your people's prayer? |
| You have fed them bread of tears, and You have given them to drink tears in large measure. |
| You have made us the target of strife to our neighbors, and our enemies mock themselves. |
| O God of Hosts, return us; cause Your countenance to shine and we shall be saved. |
| You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out nations and planted it. |
| You cleared [a place] before it; it took root and filled the land. |
| Mountains were covered [by] its shade, and its branches were great cedars. |
| It sent forth its branches until the sea, and to the river its tender shoots. |
| Why have You breached its fences, so that all wayfarers have plucked its fruit? |
| The boar from the forest gnaw at it, and the creeping things of the field graze on it? |
| O God of Hosts, return now; look from heaven and see, and be mindful of this vine, |
| And of the foundation that Your right hand has planted and over the son You have strengthened for Yourself. |
| Burned with fire [and] cut off; from the rebuke of Your countenance they perish. |
| May Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand, upon the son of man whom You strengthened for Yourself. |
| And let us not withdraw from You; grant us life, and we shall call out in Your name. |
| O Lord God of Hosts, return us; cause Your countenance to shine, and we shall be saved. |
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