¶You removed a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and planted 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.
- 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.
- 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).
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- 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?
- Ps 44:2You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.
- Jer 12:10Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have trodden my portion under foot. They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
- Ezek 17:6It grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and its roots were under him. So it became a vine, produced branches, and shot out sprigs.
- John 15:1–8“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
- Jer 18:9–10At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
- Isa 5:1–7Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
- Acts 7:45which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David,
- Isa 27:2–3In that day, sing to her, “A pleasant vineyard!
- Ezek 19:10“‘Your mother was like a vine, in your blood, planted by the waters. It was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
- Ps 78:55He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
- Ezek 15:6Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “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 to Misrephoth Maim, even all the Sidonians. I will drive them out from before the children of Israel. Just allocate it to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.
- Matt 21:33–41“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.
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