
Text -- Psalms 80:8 (NET)




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JFB -> Psa 80:8-11; Psa 80:8-11
Or, "plucked up," as by roots, to be replanted.

JFB: Psa 80:8-11 - -- (Psa 78:47). The figure (Isa 16:8) represents the flourishing state of Israel, as predicted (Gen 28:14), and verified (1Ki 4:20-25).
(Psa 78:47). The figure (Isa 16:8) represents the flourishing state of Israel, as predicted (Gen 28:14), and verified (1Ki 4:20-25).
Clarke -> Psa 80:8
Clarke: Psa 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, Isa ...
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, Isa 5:1, etc.; by Jeremiah, Jer 2:21; by Ezekiel, Eze 17:5, Eze 17:6; by Hosea, Hos 10:1; by Joel, Joe 1:7; by Moses, Deu 32:32, Deu 32:33; and often by our Lord himself, Mat 20:1, etc.; Mat 21:33, etc.; Mar 12:1, etc. 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 favorable 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, etc., 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.
Calvin -> Psa 80:8
Calvin: Psa 80:8 - -- 8.Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt Under the figure of a vine, the singular grace which God was graciously pleased to exercise towards his peopl...
8.Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt Under the figure of a vine, the singular grace which God was graciously pleased to exercise towards his people after he had redeemed them is celebrated; and this powerfully contributed to inspire them with the hope of being heard. For which of us can be so presumptuous as to dare to come into the presence of God until he himself has previously invited us? Now, he allures us to himself both by his benefits and by his word. The object in view in now presenting his liberality before him is, that he should not leave unfinished the work of his hands which he had commenced. It is indeed true that, without his word, the benefits which he has conferred upon us would make a faint impression upon our hearts; but when experience is added to the testimony of his word, it greatly encourages us. Now, the redemption of which mention is here made was inseparably connected with the covenant of God; for he had, even four hundred years before, entered into covenant with Abraham, in which he promised the deliverance of his seed. What is stated amounts in short to this, that it is unbecoming that God should now suffer the vine which he had planted and cultivated so carefully with his own hand to be wasted by wild beasts. God’s covenant was not made to last only for a few days, or for a short time: when he adopted the children of Abraham, he took them under his keeping for ever. By the word vine, is intimated the high place which this people held in the estimation of God, who not only was pleased to hold them as his own inheritance, but who also distinguished them by peculiar honor, even as a vine excels all other possessions. When it is said that the land or ground was cleansed, this is a repetition of what had been previously stated, that the heathen were cast out to make room for the chosen people. Perhaps, however, the allusion is to the continual digging which vines require, in order to their being kept clean lest they should degenerate; this allusion being made with the view of showing how God had performed the part of a good husbandman towards his people, since, after having planted them, he did not cease to employ every means to cherish and preserve them. What is added immediately after, Thou hast rooted its roots, is not to be understood of the planting of it at first, but of the pains taken by God to propagate it, 393 which is a part of the culture of the vine. Whence it follows that the mountains were covered with its shadow; for the whole country, although mountainous, was filled with inhabitants; so much did that people increase in number. The branches of this vine are compared to the cedars of God, that is, to the most beautiful and most excellent cedars; thereby to express still more vividly how eminently the seed of Abraham were blessed of God. The sea and the Euphrates, as is well known, were the divinely appointed boundaries of the land promised them for an inheritance.
TSK -> Psa 80:8
TSK: Psa 80:8 - -- a vine : Isa 5:1-7, Isa 27:2, Isa 27:3; Jer 2:21; Eze 15:6, Eze 17:6, Eze 19:10; Mat 21:33-41; Joh 15:1-8
thou hast cast : Psa 44:2, Psa 78:55; Jer 18...

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Barnes -> Psa 80:8
Barnes: Psa 80:8 - -- 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. ...
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 Isa 5:1-7. Compare Jer 2:21; Eze 15:6; Mat 20:1; Mat 21:28, Mat 21:33; Luk 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 Psa 2:1, note; Psa 2:8, note; Psa 77:15, note.
And planted it - Thou hast established thy people there as one plants a vine in a field. See Psa 44:2.
Poole -> Psa 80:8
Poole: Psa 80:8 - -- A vine to which the Israel or church of God is oft compared; as Isa 5:2 Jer 2:21 Eze 17:6 Mat 21:32 .
Out of Egypt he alludes to the custom of tran...
Haydock -> Psa 80:8
Haydock: Psa 80:8 - -- In the secret place of tempest. Hebrew, of thunder. When thou soughtest to hide thyself from the tempest: or, when I came down to Mount Sinai...
In the secret place of tempest. Hebrew, of thunder. When thou soughtest to hide thyself from the tempest: or, when I came down to Mount Sinai, hidden from the eyes in a storm of thunder; (Challoner; Exodus xix. 16.) or when I afflicted Egypt, (Exodus ix. 23.) and Pharao's army, Psalm lxxvi. 19. ---
Contradiction, at Mara, or rather at Cades, where Moses betrayed some distrust, Exodus xxiv. 25., and Numbers xx. 12. (Calmet) ---
After so many benefits, they still contradicted God, and would not serve him. (Worthington)
Gill -> Psa 80:8
Gill: Psa 80:8 - -- 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 ...
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 2:21. 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 Son 2:13 the vine tree is fruitful, and bears fruit in clusters but its wood is very useless and unprofitable, Eze 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 Rev 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, Deu 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, Psa 10:16,
and planted it; the vine, the Israelites, in the land of Canaan; see Exo 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 Psa 1:3.

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TSK Synopsis -> Psa 80:1-19
TSK Synopsis: Psa 80:1-19 - --1 The psalmist in his prayer complains of the miseries of the church.8 God's former favours are turned into judgments.14 He prays for deliverance.
MHCC -> Psa 80:8-16
MHCC: Psa 80:8-16 - --The church is represented as a vine and a vineyard. The root of this vine is Christ, the branches are believers. The church is like a vine, needing su...
Matthew Henry -> Psa 80:8-19
Matthew Henry: Psa 80:8-19 - -- The psalmist is here presenting his suit for the Israel of God, and pressing it home at the throne of grace, pleading with God for mercy and grace f...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Psa 80:8-19
Keil-Delitzsch: Psa 80:8-19 - --
The complaint now assumes a detailing character in this strophe, inasmuch as it contrasts the former days with the present; and the ever more and mo...
Constable: Psa 73:1--89:52 - --I. Book 3: chs 73--89
A man or men named Asaph wrote 17 of the psalms in this book (Pss. 73-83). Other writers w...

Constable: Psa 80:1-19 - --Psalm 80
Again Asaph called on God to deliver and restore Israel. The nation was downtrodden and needed ...
