You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.
Parallel translations
- WEB You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.
- KJV Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
- NKJV You have brought a vine out of Egypt; You have cast out the nations, and planted it.
- NASB ¶You removed a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and planted it.
- NLT You brought us from Egypt like a grapevine; you drove away the pagan nations and transplanted us into your land.
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Quick answer
Israel is pictured as a vine God brought out of Egypt and planted in the land after driving out the nations. It recalls God's saving acts in the exodus and conquest.
Overview
The vine imagery (vv. 8-16) portrays Israel as God's own carefully transplanted nation, redeemed from Egypt and given a home by His power. This recalls the covenant faithfulness shown in the exodus and the gift of Canaan. Jesus later takes up this imagery, declaring Himself the true vine in whom God's people find their life (John 15:1).
Cross-references & the web
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- Jer 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?
- Ps 44:2With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.
- Jer 12:10Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.
- Ezek 17:6It sprouted and became a spreading vine, low in height, with branches turned toward him; yet its roots remained where it stood. So it became a vine and yielded branches and sent out shoots.
- John 15:1–8“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.
- Jer 18:9–10And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom,
- Isa 5:1–7I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
- Acts 7:45And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,
- Isa 27:2–3In that day: “Sing about a fruitful vineyard.
- Ezek 19:10Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of the abundant waters.
- Ps 78:55He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
- Ezek 15:6Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give up the people of Jerusalem.
- Josh 13:6All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim—all the Sidonians—I Myself will drive out before the Israelites. Be sure to divide it by lot as an inheritance to Israel, as I have commanded you.
- Matt 21:33–41Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
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