Psalms 80:3-18

³God, please restore us! Let your face shine on us so we can be saved.

⁴Lord God Almighty, how long will you be angry with the prayers of your people?

⁵You fed them with the bread of tears, and gave them a full bowl of tears to drink.

⁶You turn us into victims our neighbors fight over; our enemies mock us.

⁷God Almighty, please restore us! Let your face shine on us so we can be saved!

⁸You carried us out of Egypt like a vine. You drove out the heathen nations, and then you planted the vine.

⁹You prepared the ground for the vine. It took root and filled the land.

¹⁰The mountains were covered by its shade; its branches covered the great cedars.

¹¹It sent its branches as far west as the Mediterranean Sea, and its shoots as far east as the Euphrates River.

¹²So why have you broken down the walls that protect it so that everyone who passes by can steal its fruit?

¹³Wild pigs from the forest eat it, wild animals feed on it.

¹⁴God Almighty, please return to us! Look down from heaven and see what's happening to us! Come and care for this vine

¹⁵that you planted yourself, this son that you brought up yourself.

¹⁶We, your vine, have been chopped down and burned. May those who did this die when you glare at them.

¹⁷Protect the man who stands beside you; strengthen the son you have chosen.

¹⁸Then we will not turn away from you. Revive us so we can pray to you.