Psalm 80

New International Reader's Version

³ God, make us new again.
    May you be pleased with us.
    Then we will be saved.

⁴ Lord God, you rule over all.
    How long will you be angry?
    Will you be angry with your people even when they pray to you?
⁵ You have given us tears as our food.
    You have made us drink tears by the bowlful.
⁶ You have let our neighbors mock us.
    Our enemies laugh at us.

⁷ God who rules over all, make us new again.
    May you be pleased with us.
    Then we will be saved.

⁸ You brought Israel out of Egypt.
    Israel was like a vine.
After you drove the nations out of Canaan,
    you planted the vine in their land.
⁹ You prepared the ground for it.
    It took root and spread out over the whole land.
¹⁰ The mountains were covered with its shade.
    The shade of its branches covered the mighty cedar trees.
¹¹ Your vine sent its branches out all the way to the Mediterranean Sea.
    They reached as far as the Euphrates River.

¹² Why have you broken down the walls around your vine?
    Now all who pass by it can pick its grapes.
¹³ Wild pigs from the forest destroy it.
    Insects from the fields feed on it.
¹⁴ God who rules over all, return to us!
    Look down from heaven and see us!
Watch over your vine.
¹⁵     Guard the root you have planted with your powerful right hand.
    Take care of the branch you have raised up for yourself.

¹⁶ Your vine has been cut down and burned in the fire.
    You have been angry with us, and we are dying.
¹⁷ May you honor the people at your right hand.
    May you honor the nation you have raised up for yourself.
¹⁸ Then we won’t turn away from you.
    Give us new life. We will worship you.

¹⁹ Lord God who rules over all, make us new again.
    May you be pleased with us.
    Then we will be saved.