the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself.
Parallel translations
- KJV And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
- BSB the root Your right hand has planted, the son You have raised up for Yourself.
- NKJV And the vineyard which Your right hand has planted, And the branch that You made strong for Yourself.
- NASB The shoot which Your right hand has planted, And of the son whom You have strengthened for Yourself.
- NLT that you yourself have planted, this son you have raised for yourself.
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Quick answer
The prayer appeals to the vine as the very stock God planted and strengthened for Himself. It grounds the plea in God's own investment in His people.
Overview
By recalling that God's right hand planted this vine and made a particular branch strong, the psalmist appeals to God's covenant commitment. The 'son' or branch may anticipate v. 17's 'son of man,' pointing toward God's chosen one. The argument is that God should preserve what He purposely raised up for His own glory.
Cross-references & the web
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- John 15:1“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
- Zech 3:8Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they are men who are a sign: for, behold, I will bring out my servant, the Branch.
- Zech 6:12and speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build Yahweh’s temple;
- Ps 80:8You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.
- Jer 23:5–6“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
- Mark 12:1He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.
- Jer 2:21Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
- Isa 11:1A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.
- Isa 5:1–2Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
- Ezek 17:22–24“Thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘I will also take some of the lofty top of the cedar, and will plant it. I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.
- Ps 89:21with whom my hand shall be established. My arm will also strengthen him.
- Isa 49:5Now Yahweh says, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, and to gather Israel to him, for I am honorable in Yahweh’s eyes, and my God has become my strength.
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