Psalm 80:8

Translations

Modern

You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.

Traditional

Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

Literal

A vine from Egypt You pulled out; You drove out the nations and planted her.

Latin

Vineam de Ægypto transtulisti: ejecisti gentes, et plantasti eam.

Original

Hebrew

English

You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.

Notes

Psalms 80:8–9

Israel had been like a fruitful grapevine (Genesis 1:28; Galatians 5:22–23) that God transplanted to Canaan at the time of the conquest. However, the people forgot the source of their prosperity and chose to do evil (Isaiah 5:1–7; Hosea 10:1).

Psalms 80:8–11

Israel has a glorious past that began when God rescued the people from Egypt.

Psalms 80:1–19

This psalm of lament may come from the remnant (the small group that survived) of the northern kingdom after it fell in 722 BC. The people call on God as their Shepherd and as the God of Hosts (a title that describes God as the ruler over the armies of heaven). They hope that he will return to them and restore them.

They remember the Exodus and their special relationship with the Lord. The psalm ends with a promise of renewed commitment to him (Psalm 80:18).

Theme notes and profiles

God’s Presence in the Psalms Salvation in the Psalms

Related verses

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?
Psalm 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 5:1–7
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 15:1–8
“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.
Jeremiah 18:9–10
And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom,
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,
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.
Isaiah 27:2–3
In that day: “Sing about a fruitful vineyard.
Matthew 21:33–41
Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
Ezekiel 15:6
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give up the people of Jerusalem.

Places

Egypt: Ancient nation; Israelites enslaved there; plagues and Exodus

Glossary

Asaph Body of Christ Branch Imprecatory Psalms Music Presence of God Psalms, Book of Shoshannim, Shoshannim-Eduth Vine, Wild Vine

Topics

Church: Backslidden Grape: Parables of the Vine Parables of a Vine of Egypt The Vine of Israel The Vine: Places Celebrated For: Egypt Vine: Parables of

Psalm 80:8

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