Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
Parallel translations
- WEB You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.
- BSB You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted 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 2:21Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
- Ps 44:2How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
- Jer 12:10Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
- Ezek 17:6And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
- John 15:1–8I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
- Jer 18:9–10And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
- Isa 5:1–7Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
- Acts 7:45Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
- Isa 27:2–3In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
- Ezek 19:10Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
- Ps 78:55He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
- Ezek 15:6Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
- Josh 13:6All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.
- Matt 21:33–41Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
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