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Psalm 80:10

The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God’s cedars.

8You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.
9You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.
10The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God’s cedars.
11It sent out its branches to the sea, its shoots to the River.
12Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
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Notice

Mountains covered by a vine’s shadow picture the vast reach Israel once had, a memory that makes the broken walls in the next lines harder to face.

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Where else Scripture says this

3 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Ezekiel 31:8The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it. The cypress trees were not like its branches. The pine trees were not like its branches; nor was any tree in …Both passages use branches and cedars associated with God to describe extraordinary size, though Ezekiel also emphasizes unmatched beauty.
Psalm 104:16The LORD’s trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted,Both passages associate cedars with God; Psalm 80 uses them as a comparison for the vine’s great boughs.
Jonah 3:3So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the LORD’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across.The connection is limited to scale: the vine’s shadow covers mountains, while Nineveh takes three days to cross.
Where this verse fits

Grief. feeling distant from God. sermon or Bible study notes.

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Read Psalm 80:8–12, tracing the vine’s growth and loss

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Encouragement

The memory of Israel’s broad branches remains within its lament. The God addressed over broken walls is the same God who planted the vine.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).