Psalms 80:5-12

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.

¹²So why have you abandoned us and allowed our enemies to tear down our walls RHQ? You are like someone who tears down the fences around his vineyard, with the result that all the people who pass by can steal the grapes,