Psalm 80:1-2, 8-19

For the music leader. According to “Lotus Blossoms.” A testimony of Asaph. A psalm.

80 Shepherd of Israel, listen! You, the one who leads Joseph as if he were a sheep. You, who are enthroned upon the winged heavenly creatures. Show yourself ² before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh! Wake up your power! Come to save us! ⁸ You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations and planted it. ⁹ You cleared the ground for it; then it planted its roots deep, filling the land. ¹⁰ The mountains were covered by its shade; the mighty cedars were covered by its branches. ¹¹ It sent its branches all the way to the sea; its shoots went all the way to the Euphrates River. ¹² So 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? ¹⁴ Please 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. ¹⁶ It is burned with fire. It is chopped down. They die at the rebuke coming from you. ¹⁷ Let 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. ¹⁹ Restore us, Lord God of heavenly forces! Make your face shine so that we can be saved!

Isaiah5:1-7

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. ² He 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. ³ So now, you who live in Jerusalem, you people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard: ⁴ What 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? ⁵ Now 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. ⁶ I’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. ⁷ The 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!

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