Psalms 80:10

King James Version

The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The mountaines were couered with the shadowe of it, and the boughes thereof were like the goodly cedars.

Christian Standard Bible®
The mountains were covered by its shade,and the mighty cedars with its branches.

Hebrew Names Version
The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God's cedars.

Easy-to-Read Version
It covered the mountains, and its leaves shaded even the giant cedar trees.

Amplified Bible
The mountains were covered with its shadow, And its branches were like the cedars of God.

American Standard Version
The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like cedars of God.

Contemporary English Version
Shade from this vine covered the mountains. Its branches climbed the mighty cedars

Complete Jewish Bible
you cleared a space for it; then it took root firmly and filled the land.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou didst clear a place before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land.

King James Version (1611)
The hilles were couered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots equalled the goodly cedars.

English Revised Version
The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like cedars of God.

Berean Standard Bible
The mountains were covered by its shade, and the mighty cedars with its branches.

Lexham English Bible
The mountains were covered with its shade, and the mighty cedars with its boughs.

Literal Translation
The hills were covered with its shadow, and its boughs were as the cedars of God.

New Century Version
We covered the mountains with our shade. We had limbs like the mighty cedar tree.

New English Translation
The mountains were covered by its shadow, the highest cedars by its branches.

New King James Version
The hills were covered with its shadow, And the mighty cedars with its boughs.

New Living Translation
Our shade covered the mountains; our branches covered the mighty cedars.

New Life Bible
The mountains were covered with its shadow. And the tall trees were covered with its branches.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Covered were the mountains with its shade, And, with its boughs, the mighty cedars.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(79-11) The shadow of it covered the hills: and the branches thereof the cedars of God.

George Lamsa Translation
The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the vine-shoots thereof were upon the cedars of God.

Good News Translation
It covered the hills with its shade; its branches overshadowed the giant cedars.

New American Standard Bible
The mountains were covered with its shadow, And the cedars of God with its branches.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The hilles were couered with her shadowe: and goodly high Cedar trees with her bowes.

New Revised Standard
The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches;

Darby Translation
The mountains were covered with its shadow, and the branches thereof were [like] cedars of God;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The schadewe therof hilide hillis; and the braunchis therof filliden the cedris of God.

Young's Literal Translation
Covered have been hills [with] its shadow, And its boughs [are] cedars of God.

World English Bible
The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God's cedars.

Revised Standard Version
The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches;

Update Bible Version
The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were [like] cedars of God.

Webster's Bible Translation
The hills were covered with the shade of it, and its boughs [were like] the goodly cedars.

Bible in Basic English
The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The hilles were couered with the shadowe of it, & so were the stronge Cedretrees wt the bowes therof.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The mountains were covered with its shadow, And the cedars of God with its boughs.

Legacy Standard Bible
The mountains were covered with its shadow,And the cedars of God with its boughs.

Contextual Overview

⁸ Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. ⁹ Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. ¹⁰ The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. ¹¹ She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river. ¹² Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? ¹³ The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. ¹⁴ Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; ¹⁵ And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself. ¹⁶ It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. ¹⁷ Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.

Bible Verse Review
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goodly cedars: Heb. cedars of God, Psalms 104:16

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 31:8 - cedars Daniel 2:35 - and filled Jonah 3:3 - So

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The hills were covered with the shadow of it,.... Alluding to the land of Canaan, which was a mountainous and hilly country, at least some part of it; hence we read of the hill country of Judea, Luke 1:39 and to the nature of vines, which delight to grow on hills and mountains p: in a figurative sense this may denote the subjection of kings and kingdoms, comparable to hills, to the Israelites in the times of David and Solomon, 2 Samuel 8:1 and the exaltation of the church of Christ, in the latter day, over the hills and mountains, Isaiah 2:2. The Targum is,

"the mountains of Jerusalem were covered with the shadow of the house of the sanctuary, and of the houses of the schools:''

and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars; to these the righteous are compared, Psalms 92:13, the Targum is,

"the doctors, the mighty preachers, who are like to the strong cedars:''

the words may be rendered, "the boughs thereof cover the goodly cedars", or "cedars of God" q; that is, overrun and overtop the goodly cedars; alluding to vines running and growing upon high and goodly trees; and so may denote, as before, the power of Israel over the princes and potentates of the earth, comparable to cedars, the most excellent; as things most excellent have often the name of God added to them; see Psalms 104:16.

p "Bacchus amat colles----" Virgil Georgic. l. 2. v. 113. q ענפיה ארזי אל "rami ejus cedros Dei", Tigurine version; so Sept. "et ramia ejus cedri Dei", Musculus, Cocceius; "palmitibus ejus cedri altissimae operiebantur", Piscator, De Dieu; "ramis ejus opertae sunt cedri Dei", Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The hills were covered with the shadow of it - That is, It made a shade, by its luxuriant foliage, on the hills in every part of the land; it seemed to cover all the hills.

And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars - Margin, as in Hebrew, cedars of God; that is, lofty, majestic cedars. See the notes at Psalms 65:9. The reference here is to the cedars of Lebanon, among the most majestic objects known to the Hebrews.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 80:10. The hills were covered — 6. The vine, carefully cultivated in a suitable soil, may be spread to any extent. In the land of Judea it formed shades under which the people not only sheltered and refreshed themselves in times of sultry heats; but it is said they even ate, drank, and dwelt under the shelter of their vines. See 1 Kings 4:25; Micah 4:4; 1Mac 14:12. God so blessed the Jews, particularly in the days of David and Solomon, that all the neighbouring nations were subdued-the Syrians, Idumeans, Philistines, Moabites, and Ammonites.