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Psalms 80:10

The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 80:10

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

The hills were covered with the shadow of it. The "hills" intended are probably those of the south—the hill country of Judah—since the clauses which follow designate the boundaries towards the north, west, and east.

(So Hengstenberg, Kay, Professor Cheyne, and others.) And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars; rather, and the goodly cedar trees were covered with their branches. The cedars of Lebanon are intended.

They marked the boundary line on the north. The psalmist calls them "cedars of God," by a strong, but not unprecedented (), hyperbole.

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