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Psalm 80:8

You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.

6You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.
7Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
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.
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A vine brought out of Egypt recalls Israel's dependence on God, whose planting involved driving out other nations, even as his people now plead for help.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Jeremiah 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?Both describe God planting his people as a vine; Jeremiah adds the grief of that vine becoming corrupt.
Psalm 111:6He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the heritage of the nations.Both recall God's power in establishing his people where other nations had held the land.
2 Samuel 7:10I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will …Both describe God planting Israel in a place, with Samuel expressing a promise and the psalm remembering God's past work.
Psalm 44:2You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.Both prayers remember God driving out nations and planting his people in their place.
Ezekiel 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 …Both picture a vine established in a place, though Ezekiel describes its growth and the psalm recalls its planting.
Isaiah 5:1Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.The vine and the vineyard share an agricultural image, though only the psalm here names Egypt and displaced nations.
Exodus 15:17You will bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, the place, LORD, which you have made for yourself to dwell in: the sanctuary, Lord, …Both describe God bringing his people to a place and planting them there.
Exodus 34:24For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before the LORD, your God, …Both name God driving out nations, with Exodus promising the action that the psalm remembers.
John 15:1–8“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.Both use a vine image in relation to God; John identifies Jesus as the vine and his Father as the farmer.
Jeremiah 12:10Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have trodden my portion under foot. They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.Both use vineyard imagery for what belongs to God; the psalm recalls planting, while Jeremiah describes destruction.
Jeremiah 18:9–10At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it,Both describe God's work with a people through planting language; Jeremiah speaks of a nation, while the psalm recalls Israel.
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Encouragement

Remembering God's care can belong within a prayer whose trouble remains unresolved. Israel asks for help from the God who brought the vine out of Egypt and planted it.

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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).