^{4 Ref} O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?

^{5 Ref} You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.

^{6 Ref} You make us a cause of war among our neighbours; our haters are laughing at us among themselves.

^{7 Ref} Take us back again, O God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.

^{8 Ref} You took a vine out of Egypt: driving out the nations, and planting it in their land.

^{9 Ref} You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land.

^{10 Ref} The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches.

^{11 Ref} It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River.

^{12 Ref} Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit?

^{13 Ref} It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it.

^{14 Ref} Come back, O God of armies: from heaven let your eyes be turned to this vine, and give your mind to it,

^{15 Ref} Even to the tree which was planted by your right hand, and to the branch which you made strong for yourself.

^{16 Ref} It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.