Psalms 80:4-11

⁴Yahweh, you who are the commander of the armies of heaven, how long will you be angry with us, your people, when we pray to you?

⁵It is as though the only food and drink that you have given us is a cup full of our tears!

⁶You have allowed the people-groups that surround us to fight with each other to decide which part of our land each of them will take; our enemies laugh at us.

⁷God, commander of the armies of heaven, cause our nation to be strong like it was before! Be kind to us in order that we may be saved!

⁸Our ancestors were like a grapevine MET that you brought out of Egypt; you expelled the other people-groups from this land, and you put your people in their land.

⁹Like people clear ground to plant a grapevine MET, you cleared out the people who were living in this land for us to live in it. Like the roots of a grapevine go deep down into the ground and spread MET, you enabled our ancestors to prosper and start living in towns all over this land.

¹⁰Like huge grapevines cover the hills with their shade and their branches are taller than big cedar trees MET, HYP,

¹¹your people ruled all of Canaan, from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the Euphrates River in the east.