The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 80:8-19

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

The poet, to excite God's compassion, proceeds to depict Israel as it was and as it is. He adopts the figure of a vine, perhaps suggested to him by the description of Joseph in the dying speech of Jacob (Genesis 49:22), and carries out his metaphor, in nine consecutive verses, with great beauty and consistency.

Isaiah's description of Israel as a vineyard (Isaiah 5:1-7) is somewhat similar.

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