8 You transplanted a vine from Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.
8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
8 You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.
8 Remember how you brought a young vine from Egypt, cleared out the brambles and briers and planted your very own vineyard?
8 You have brought a vine out of Egypt; You have cast out the nations, and planted it.
8 You brought us from Egypt like a grapevine; you drove away the pagan nations and transplanted us into your land.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 80:8
Commentary on Psalm 80:8-16
(Read Psalm 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 support, but spreading and fruitful. If a vine do not bring forth fruit, no tree is so worthless. And are not we planted as in a well-cultivated garden, with every means of being fruitful in works of righteousness? But the useless leaves of profession, and the empty boughs of notions and forms, abound far more than real piety. It was wasted and ruined. There was a good reason for this change in God's way toward them. And it is well or ill with us, according as we are under God's smiles or frowns. When we consider the state of the purest part of the visible church, we cannot wonder that it is visited with sharp corrections. They request that God would help the vine. Lord, it is formed by thyself, and for thyself, therefore it may, with humble confidence, be committed to thyself.