Psalms 80:10
The mountains were covered by its shade, and the mighty cedars with its branches.
BSB
ASV
The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like cedars of God.
KJV
The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
"The hills were covered with the shadow of it." Israel dwelt up the mountains' summits, cultivating every foot of soil. The nation multiplied and became so great that other lands felt its influence, or were shadowed by it. "And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars." The nation itself was so great that even its tribes were powerful and worthy to take rank among the mighty. A more correct rendering describes the cedars as covered with the vine, and we know that in many lands vines climb the trees, and cover them.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk4
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Psalms 104:16The trees of the LORD have their fill, the cedars of Lebanon that He planted,
leads to
They spread out like palm groves, like gardens beside a stream, like aloes the LORD has planted, like cedars beside the waters.
to proclaim Your loving devotion in the morning and Your faithfulness at night
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon.
I will plant it on the mountain heights of Israel so that it will bear branches; it will yield fruit and become a majestic cedar. Birds of every kind will nest under it, taking…
