Psalms 80:1-13

¹To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim-eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm. Give ear, O Keeper of Israel, guiding Joseph like a flock; you who have your seat on the winged ones, let your glory be seen.

²Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, let your strength be awake from sleep, and come as our salvation.

³Take us back again, O God; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.

⁴O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?

⁵You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.

⁶You make us a cause of war among our neighbours; our haters are laughing at us among themselves.

⁷Take us back again, O God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.

⁸You took a vine out of Egypt: driving out the nations, and planting it in their land.

⁹You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land.

¹⁰The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches.

¹¹It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River.

¹²Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit?

¹³It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it.