Psalms 80:4-15

⁴(80:5) O Lord of hosts, how long shall thy anger smoke against the prayer of thy people?

⁵(80:6) Thou feedest them with the bread of tears, and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

⁶(80:7) Thou renderest us a contest unto our neighbors: and our enemies hold derision among themselves.

⁷(80:8) O God of hosts, cause us to return, and let thy countenance shine, that we may be saved.

⁸(80:9) A vine didst thou remove out of Egypt: thou drovest out nations, and plantedst it.

⁹(80:10) Thou didst clear out a place before it, and it struck its root deeply, and it filled the land.

¹⁰(80:11) Mountains were covered with its shadow, and with its boughs the cedars of God.

¹¹(80:12) It sent out its tendrils as far as the sea, and unto the river its suckers.

¹²(80:13) Wherefore hast thou now broken down its fences, so that all who pass by the way pluck the fruit from it?

¹³(80:14) The boar out of the forest doth gnaw at it, and what moveth on the field feedeth on it.

¹⁴(80:15) O God of hosts, return; I pray thee, look down from heaven, and behold, and think of this vine;

¹⁵(80:16) And of the sprout which thy right hand hath planted, and of the branch that thou hast made strong for thyself.