Psalms 80:15
in Psalms 80the root Your right hand has planted, the son You have raised up for Yourself.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the stock which thy right hand planted, And the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
KJV
And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
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This verse in Psalms 80
Commentary
11 notes on this verseAnd the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted,.... The word "Cannah" is only used in this place, and the first letter of it is larger than usual, to keep in perpetual remembrance, as is thought by some (t), the bringing of this vine out of Egypt, and the great things done for it in the land of Israel; and the letter, being crooked, may denote the oppression of this vine by various calamities.
This site's exposition
Return, O God of Hosts
on Psalms 80:14-16
The complaint turns back to petition, asking God to look down from heaven and attend to this vine. Verse 15 calls it the root His right hand planted and the son He raised up for Himself. The vine is cut down and burned.
This site's exposition
the son You have raised up for Yourself
Henry noted that the Hebrew here reads son. He rested the plea on ownership: God planted this vine and raised it up for Himself, so it may be committed to His care. Spurgeon asked whether all that labor would now be lost.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
Psalm 79 [LXX] is similarly titled "For the things that shall be changed." In this psalm, among other things, is written, "look down from heaven and see; visit this vineyard and perfect what your right hand has planted and on the son of man whom you have confirmed for yourself." This is the vineyard of which it is said, "You have brought a vineyard out of Egypt." Christ did not plant another; by his coming he changed that one into a better vineyard. Accordingly, we find in the Gospel: "He will utterly destroy those evil men, and will let out the vineyard to other vine dressers." The Gospel does not say, "He will uproot and will plant another," but "this same vineyard he will let out to other vine dressers." The city of God and congregation of the children of promise must be filled with the same community of saints by the death and succession of mortal beings and at the end of the world will receive its due immortality in all people. This same thought is expressed differently by means of the fruitful olive tree in another psalm, which says, "But I as a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped in the mercy of God forever, yea, for ever and ever." It was not because the unbelievers and the proud had been broken away and the branches were on that account unfruitful and the wild olive of the Gentiles was ingrafted that the root of the patriarchs and prophets died. Isaiah says, "For if your people, O Israel, shall be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of them shall be saved," but through him about whom the psalm says, "and on the son of man whom you have confirmed for yourself," and about whom is reiterated, "Let your hand be on the man of your right hand: and on the son of man whom you have confirmed for yourself. […]
But with what profit is this? "O God of virtues turn Thou nevertheless" (ver. 14). Although these things have been done, "Turn Thou nevertheless." "Look from heaven and see, and visit this vineyard." "And perfect Thou her whom Thy right hand hath planted" (ver. 15). No other plant Thou, but this make Thou perfect. For she is the very seed of Abraham, she is the very seed in whom all nations shall be blessed: there is the root where is borne the graffed wild olive. "Perfect Thou this vineyard which Thy right hand hath planted." But wherein doth He perfect? "And upon the Son of man, whom Thou hast strengthened to Thyself." What can be more evident? Why do ye still expect, that we should still explain to you in discourse, and should we not rather cry out with you in admiration, "Perfect Thou this vineyard which Thy right hand hath planted, and upon the Son of man" perfect her? What Son of man? Him "whom Thou hast strengthened to Thyself." A mighty stronghold: build as much as thou art able. "For other foundation no one is able to lay, except that which is laid, which is Christ Jesus."
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
The root of this vine is Christ, Rom. xi. The branches are believers, John xv. The church is like a vine, weak and needing support, unsightly and having an unpromising outside, but spreading and fruitful, and its fruit most excellent.
21 ), that with the fruit of it thou mightest be honoured. Lord, it is formed by thyself and for thyself, and therefore it may with a humble confidence be committed to thyself and to thy own care." As for God, his work is perfect. What we read the branch in the Hebrew is the son (Ben ), whom in thy counsel thou hast made strong for thyself.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted. Shall all thy care be lost? Thou has done so much, wilt thou lose thy labour? With thy power and wisdom thou didst great things for thy people, wilt thou now utterly give them up, and suffer thine enemies to exult in the evil which they delight in? And the branch that thou madest strong for thyself. A prayer for the leader whom the Lord had raised up, or for the Messiah whom they expected. Though the vine had been left, yet one branch had been regarded of the Lord, as if to furnish a scion for another vine; therefore, is the prayer made in this form. Let us pray the Lord, if he will not in the first place look upon his church, to look upon the Lord Jesus, and then behold her in mercy for his sake. This is the true art of prayer, to put Christ forward and cry, "Him and then the sinner see, Look through Jesus' wounds on me."
3 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century3 voices
And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted. Shall all thy care be lost? Thou has done so much, wilt thou lose thy labour? With thy power and wisdom thou didst great things for thy people, wilt thou now utterly give them up, and suffer thine enemies to exult in the evil which they delight in? And the branch that thou madest strong for thyself. A prayer for the leader whom the Lord had raised up, or for the Messiah whom they expected.
The vineyard which thy right hand hath planted - Thy holy and pure worship which thy Almighty power had established in this city. And the branch - thou madest strong for thy self - The original ועל בן veal ben, “and upon the Son whom thou hast strengthened for thyself.” Many have thought that the Lord Jesus is meant. And so the Chaldee understood it, as it translates the passage thus: ועל מלכא משיחא veal Malca Meshicha, And upon the King Messiah, whom thou hast strengthened for thyself.” The Syriac, Vulgate, Septuagint, Ethiopic, and Arabic, have, “the Son of man,’ as in the seventeenth verse. Eighteen of Kennicott’s and De Rossi’s MSS. have בן אדם ben Adam, “Son of man,” and as the Versions have all the same reading, it was probably that of the original copies. As Christ seems here to be intended, this is the first place in the Old Testament where the title Son of man is applied to him. The old Psalter understands this of setting Christ at the right hand of God.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
And the vineyard ... - Gesenius renders this as a verb: “Protect;” that is, “Protect or defend what thy right hand hath planted.” So the Septuagint renders it κατάρτισαι katartisai - and the Vulgate, perfice, fit, prepare, order. Prof. Alexander renders it sustain. DeWette, “Guard what thy right hand hath planted.” This is doubtless the true idea. It is a prayer that God would guard, sustain, defend what he had planted; to wit, the vine which he had brought out of Egypt, Psa 80:8. And the branch - literally, the son; that is, the offspring or shoots of the vine. Not merely the original plant - the parent stock - but all the branches which had sprung from it and which had spread themselves over the land. That thou madest strong for thyself - Thou didst cause it to grow so vigorously for thine own use or honor. On that account, we now call on thee to defend what is thine own.
The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְ֭כַנָּה | vekhanah | and [the] root | H3657 → | |
| אֲשֶׁר־ | ʾasher- | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| נָטְעָ֣ה | nateah | it planted | H5193 → | 58 times |
| יְמִינֶ֑ךָ | yeminekha | right [hand] your | H3225 → | 140 times |
| וְעַל־ | veal- | and on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| בֵּ֝֗ן | ben | [the] son | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| אִמַּ֥צְתָּה | ʾimatztah | [whom] you made strong | H553 → | 41 times |
| לָּֽךְ׃ | lakh | for yourself |
וְ֭כַנָּהand [the] root
vekhanahH3657 →
אֲשֶׁר־which
ʾasher-H834 →5497 times
נָטְעָ֣הit planted
nateahH5193 →58 times
יְמִינֶ֑ךָright [hand] your
yeminekhaH3225 →140 times
וְעַל־and on
veal-H5921 →5755 times
בֵּ֝֗ן[the] son
benH1121 →4930 times
אִמַּ֥צְתָּה[whom] you made strong
ʾimatztahH553 →41 times
לָּֽךְ׃for yourself
lakh
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 11:1Then a shoot will spring up from the stump of Jesse, and a Branch from his roots will bear fruit.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 23:5
Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land.
Reached by 3 separate paths from here.
- Zechariah 6:12
And you are to tell him that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Here is a man whose name is the Branch, and He will branch out from His place and build…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Revelation 22:16
“I, Jesus, have sent My angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright Morning Star.”
- Jeremiah 23:5
Through
John 15:1“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.
it leads to
- 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?
- Isaiah 27:2–3
In that day: “Sing about a fruitful vineyard.
- 1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
- Isaiah 60:21
Then all your people will be righteous; they will possess the land forever; they are the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.
- Psalms 80:8–19
You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.
- Jeremiah 2:21
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Augustine of Hippo, IN ANSWER TO THE JEWS 6:7; Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 80; Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, Vol. 4; Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Psalms; John Calvin, Commentary on the Book of Psalms; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.