Psalms Chapter 80 verse 8 Holy Bible
Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt: Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it.
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You took a vine out of Egypt: driving out the nations, and planting it in their land.
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Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt; thou didst cast out the nations, and plant it:
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Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
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Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
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You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.
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A vine out of Egypt Thou dost bring, Thou dost cast out nations, and plantest it.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 8-19. - The poet, to excite God's compassion, proceeds to depict Israel as it was and as it is. He adopts the figure of a vine, perhaps suggested to him by the description of Joseph in the dying speech of Jacob (Genesis 49:22), and carries out his metaphor, in nine consecutive verses, with great beauty and consistency. Isaiah's description of Israel as a vineyard (Isaiah 5:1-7) is somewhat similar. Verse 8. - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt. The history of Israel as a nation begins with the Exodus. The nation was transplanted from Egypt into a soil better fitted for it by the loving hand of God, in order that it might have ample room to grow up and develop itself freely. God "brought it out of Egypt," not merely in the exercise of his ordinary providence over humanity, but by an active exertion of his Almighty power, and a long series of miraculous manifestations, without which the transfer could not have been effected. He then cast out the heathen, and planted it - drove out, that is, before Israel the seven nations of the Hivites, Hittites, Gergashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, and Jebusites, and, having driven them out, "planted" in his own people (see Psalm 44:2).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) Thou hast brought.--The verb is to be taken as a historic present, "Thou bringest." It is a verb used both of horticulture (Job 19:10) and, like the word "planted" in the next clause, of breaking up and removing a nomadic encampment, "pulling out the tent-pins, and driving them in.,,The vine (or vineyard), as an emblem of Israel, is so natural and apt that we do not wonder to find it repeated again and again in the Old Testament, and adopted in the New. Probably Isaiah 5:1-7 was the parent image, unless the Patriarchal benediction on Joseph (Genesis 49:22) suggested that song.
