Sálmarnir 80:8

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8 (80:9) Þú kipptir upp vínvið úr Egyptalandi, stökktir burt þjóðum, en gróðursettir hann,

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a vine: Isaiah 5:1-7, Isaiah 27:2, Isaiah 27:3, Jeremiah 2:21, Ezekiel 15:6, Ezekiel 17:6, Ezekiel 19:10, Matthew 21:33-41, John 15:1-8

thou hast cast: Psalms 44:2, Psalms 78:55, Jeremiah 18:9, Jeremiah 18:10, This most elegant allegory, which is every where well supported, is frequently employed by sacred writers. See the parallel passages.

Reciprocal: Exodus 15:17 - plant Exodus 34:24 - I will 2 Samuel 7:10 - plant them Psalms 80:15 - vineyard Psalms 105:44 - gave Psalms 111:6 - that he Isaiah 5:7 - the vineyard Jeremiah 11:17 - that Jeremiah 12:10 - my vineyard Jeremiah 45:4 - that which Ezekiel 15:2 - What Mark 12:1 - planted Luke 13:6 - fig tree Luke 20:9 - planted 1 Corinthians 3:9 - ye are God's

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt,.... The house of Israel, who are like unto a vine, as the Targum paraphrases it; and to a vine or vineyard are they often compared; see Isaiah 5:1 Jeremiah 2:21. These were in Egypt awhile, where they were grievously oppressed and trampled upon; and yet the more they were afflicted, the more they grew and multiplied; and from hence the Lord brought them in due time, with a mighty hand and outstretched arm;

he caused them to go out; the word o used fitly expresses their journeyings from thence, and through the wilderness; they were a type of the church of Christ, and special people of God, who also are frequently compared to vines and vineyards; see Song of Solomon 2:13 the vine tree is fruitful, and bears fruit in clusters but its wood is very useless and unprofitable, Ezekiel 15:2 and it is a tree very weak, and cannot rise and support itself, it must be propped up; so believers in Christ, though fruitful through the grace of God, yet are unprofitable to him, and very weak in themselves, and are upheld by the right hand of his righteousness, on whom they lean and stay themselves; and these, in their natural state, are in worse than Egyptian bondage, darkness, and idolatry, out of which they are brought, in the effectual calling, into Gospel liberty, marvellous light, and the true worship and service of God; and out of the antichristian Egypt will all the Lord's people be brought one day; see Revelation 11:8.

thou hast cast out the Heathen; the Targum adds, out of the land of Israel, that is, Canaan; it designs the expulsion of the seven nations from thence, to make way for the Israelites, Deuteronomy 7:1 and was an emblem of the ejection of Satan out of the Gentile world, and out of the souls of men, through the ministry of the word; and of sin, and the lusts of it, when the King of glory enters in, so as that they shall not any more have dominion; though as the Canaanites were left in the land to be pricks and thorns in the eyes and sides of the Israelites, so indwelling sin remains in God's people to the distress of their souls, and the trial of their graces. The Papists are sometimes called the Heathens and Gentiles; and there will be a time when they shall be cast out, and be no more in the land, Psalms 10:16,

and planted it; the vine, the Israelites, in the land of Canaan; see

Exodus 15:17. So saints are planted not only in Christ, the true vine, of which they are branches; but in a Gospel church state, where they flourish and become fruitful and pleasant plants, plants of renown; and being of the Lord's planting, he is glorified by them, and they shall never be rooted up, nor wither, but prosper and thrive; see Psalms 1:3.

o תסיע "fecisti proficisci", Paginus, Montanus, Vatablus

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt - Referring to his people, under the image (which often occurs in the Scriptures) of a vine or vineyard. See the notes at Isaiah 5:1-7. Compare Jeremiah 2:21; Ezekiel 15:6; Matthew 20:1; Matthew 21:28, Matthew 21:33; Luke 13:6.

Thou hast cast out the heathen - The nations; to wit, the nations that occupied the land of Canaan before the children of Israel dwelt there. See Psalms 2:1, note; Psalms 2:8, note; Psalms 77:15, note.

And planted it - Thou hast established thy people there as one plants a vine in a field. See Psalms 44:2.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 80:8. Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt — This is a most elegant metaphor, and every where well supported. The same similitude is used by Isaiah, Isaiah 5:1, c. by Jeremiah, Jeremiah 2:21; by Ezekiel, Ezekiel 17:5-6; by Hosea, Hosea 10:1; by Joel, Joel 1:7; by Moses, Deuteronomy 32:32-33; and often by our Lord himself, Matthew 20:1, c. Matthew 21:33, c. Mark 12:1, c. And this was the ordinary figure to represent the Jewish Church. We may remark several analogies here:-

1. This vine was brought out of Egypt that it might be planted in a better and more favourable soil. The Israelites were brought out of their Egyptian bondage that they might be established in the land of Canaan, where they might grow and flourish, and worship the true God.

2. When the husbandman has marked out a proper place for his vineyard, he hews down and roots up all other trees gathers out the stones, brambles, &c., that might choke the young vines, and prevent them from being fruitful. So God cast out the heathen nations from the land of Canaan, that his pure worship might be established, and that there might not remain there any incitements to idolatry.