Psalms 80:8
You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.
BSB
ASV
Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt: Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it.
KJV
Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
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 Isa 5:1, Jer 2:
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Isaiah 5:1SECOND STRAND. The vine-from-Egypt with hedges broken (Ps 80:8-16) sets up Isaiah's Song of the Vineyard; Ps 80:17 pairs the vine with 'the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself'.
MT-ASV; H1612; Streett 2014 (cite-only)
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Genesis 49:11SECOND STRAND (vine/olive). Judah 'binds his foal unto the vine' - the first canonical vine, already royal/Judahite - opens the motif Ps 80 nationalizes: 'Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt'.
MT-ASV; H1612 gephen
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 walk8
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.
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Jeremiah 2:21I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
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You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your inheritance—the place, O LORD, You have prepared for Your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, Your hands have established.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
What more could I have done for My vineyard than I already did for it? Why, when I expected sweet grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit?
“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.
With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.
Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,
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Psalms 44:2With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.
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He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then…
Thus the LORD gave Israel all the land He had sworn to give their fathers, and they took possession of it and settled in it.
