⁸ We were like a grapevine
    you brought out of Egypt.
    You chased other nations away
    and planted us here.
⁹ Then you cleared the ground,
    and we put our roots deep,
    spreading over the land.
¹⁰ Shade from this vine covered
    the mountains.
Its branches
climbed
the mighty cedars
¹¹     and stretched to the sea;
    its new growth reached
    to the river.^[a]

¹² Our Lord, why have you
torn down the wall
    from around the vineyard?
You let everyone who walks by
    pick the grapes.
¹³     Now the vine is gobbled down
by pigs from the forest
    and other wild animals.

¹⁴ God All-Powerful,
    please do something!
Look down from heaven
and see what’s happening
    to this vine.