God, come back!
    Smile your blessing smile:
    That will be our salvation.

4-6 God, God-of-the-Angel-Armies,
    how long will you smolder like a sleeping volcano
    while your people call for fire and brimstone?
You put us on a diet of tears,
    bucket after bucket of salty tears to drink.
You make us look ridiculous to our friends;
    our enemies poke fun day after day.

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Restore(A) us,(B) O God;
    make your face shine on us,
    that we may be saved.(C)

How long,(D) Lord God Almighty,
    will your anger smolder(E)
    against the prayers of your people?
You have fed them with the bread of tears;(F)
    you have made them drink tears by the bowlful.(G)

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Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

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