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Psalm 80:9
You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.
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.
11It sent out its branches to the sea, its shoots to the River.
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Cleared ground and deep roots recall God's care for Israel, making the plea for rescue a plea to the God who established them.
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Joshua 24:12I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow.Both credit God with making room for Israel in the land by driving out those who occupied it.
Isaiah 37:31The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.Both describe God's people taking root, with the psalm remembering established growth and Isaiah promising renewed growth for Judah's remnant.
Exodus 23:28–30I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.Exodus promises that God will drive nations out before Israel; the psalm remembers God clearing ground for the vine brought from Egypt.
Isaiah 27:6In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.Both picture Israel taking root and spreading, with the psalm recalling growth and Isaiah looking ahead to fruit filling the world.
Psalm 105:44He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,Both recall God establishing his people in land previously occupied by other nations.
1 Kings 4:20Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.The vine filling the land and the multitude in Kings both portray Israel as a people who had grown.
1 Chronicles 27:23–24But David didn’t take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the sky.Both concern Israel's increase: the psalm pictures a vine filling the land, while Chronicles recalls God's promise of numbers like the stars.
1 Kings 4:25Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.Both portray Israel established in the land, with the psalm using a vine and Kings describing households living under vines.
Joshua 23:13–15know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge …The psalm remembers God clearing land for Israel; Joshua warns that God will no longer drive nations out.
Nehemiah 9:22–25Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you allotted according to their portions. So they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of …Both remember God providing land for his people, with Nehemiah naming kingdoms whose territory they possessed.
1 Chronicles 21:5Joab gave the sum of the census of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew a sword; and in Judah were four …The census counts Israel's people, while the psalm pictures their growth as a vine filling the land.
Jeremiah 12:2You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root. They grow. Yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.Both address God as the one who plants and describe those planted taking root; Jeremiah also names their hearts' distance from God.
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Israel's remembered growth belongs within a prayer for rescue. Past care does not erase present distress; the God being asked to save is the one who cleared the ground.
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