Psalm 80:8-18

Common English Bible

⁸You brought a vine out of Egypt.
    You drove out the nations and planted it.
⁹You cleared the ground for it;
    then it planted its roots deep, filling the land.
¹⁰The mountains were covered by its shade;
    the mighty cedars were covered by its branches.
¹¹It sent its branches all the way to the sea;
    its shoots went all the way to the Euphrates River.^[a]
¹²So why have you now torn down its walls
    so that all who come along can pluck its fruit,
¹³    so that any boar from the forest can tear it up,
    so that the bugs can feed on it?

¹⁴Please come back, God of heavenly forces!
    Look down from heaven and perceive it!
Attend to this vine,
¹⁵    this root that you planted with your strong hand,
    this son whom you secured as your very own.
¹⁶It is burned with fire. It is chopped down.
    They die at the rebuke coming from you.
¹⁷Let your hand be with the one on your right side—
    with the one whom you secured as your own—
¹⁸    then we will not turn away from you!
Revive us so that we can call on your name.

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Footnotes

Psalm 80:11 Or the Great River

Isaiah 5:1-7

Common English Bible

Song of the vineyard

5 Let me sing for my loved one
    a love song for his vineyard.
My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside.
²He dug it,
    cleared away its stones,
    planted it with excellent vines,
    built a tower inside it,
    and dug out a wine vat in it.
He expected it to grow good grapes—
    but it grew rotten grapes.
³So now, you who live in Jerusalem, you people of Judah,
    judge between me and my vineyard:
⁴What more was there to do for my vineyard
    that I haven’t done for it?
When I expected it to grow good grapes,
    why did it grow rotten grapes?
⁵Now let me tell you what I’m doing to my vineyard.
I’m removing its hedge,
    so it will be destroyed.
I’m breaking down its walls,
    so it will be trampled.
⁶I’ll turn it into a ruin;
    it won’t be pruned or hoed,
    and thorns and thistles will grow up.
I will command the clouds not to rain on it.
⁷The vineyard of the Lord of heavenly forces is the house of Israel,
    and the people of Judah are the plantings in which God delighted.
God expected justice, but there was bloodshed;
    righteousness, but there was a cry of distress!