You cleared the ground for it,
    and it took root and filled the land.
10 The mountains were covered with its shade,
    the mighty cedars with its branches.
11 Its branches reached as far as the Sea,[a]
    its shoots as far as the River.[b](A)

12 Why have you broken down its walls(B)
    so that all who pass by pick its grapes?
13 Boars from the forest ravage(C) it,
    and insects from the fields feed on it.
14 Return to us, God Almighty!
    Look down from heaven and see!(D)
Watch over this vine,

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 80:11 Probably the Mediterranean
  2. Psalm 80:11 That is, the Euphrates

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