Bible Strands
Psalms 80:8
You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist addresses God during a communal plea for restoration, framing Israel's national history as a cultivated plant.
The words — The Hebrew גֶּפֶן (gefen) means "vine," and תַּסִּיעַ (tasi'a) translates literally as "you uprooted" or "you brought up."
The thread — The text describes God removing a vine from Egypt and displacing nations to transplant it, a pattern echoed in Jeremiah 2:21 and Ezekiel 17:6, while Psalm 44:2 parallels the Exodus action without employing vine imagery.
Why it lands — The passage states God's past act of liberation and settlement before demanding the community recognize its total dependence on divine initiative for present deliverance.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 2:21 I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
- Psalms 44:2 With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.
- Ezekiel 17:6 It sprouted and became a spreading vine, low in height, with branches turned toward him; yet its roots remained where it stood. So it became a vine and yielded branches and sent out shoots.
- Isaiah 5:1 I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
- Jeremiah 12:10 Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.
- John 15:1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.
- Jeremiah 18:9 And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom,
- Isaiah 27:2 In that day: “Sing about a fruitful vineyard.
- Ezekiel 19:10 Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of the abundant waters.
- Acts 7:45 And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,