Psalm 80:8 ¶
Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen,
and planted it. 9 Thou preparedst room
before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
10 The hills were covered with the
shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea,
and her branches unto the river. 12 Why
hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by
the way do pluck her? 13 The boar out of
the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. 14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look
down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; 15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath
planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself. 16 It is burned with fire, it is
cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. 17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right
hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself. 18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken us,
and we will call upon thy name. 19 Turn
us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Israel is likened to a vine and a vineyard.
Isaiah 5:1 ¶
Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his
vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:…7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the
house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for
judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
Isaiah 27:2
In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine. 3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every
moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
Jeremiah 2:21
Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art
thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
Hosea 10:1 ¶
Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according
to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the
goodness of his land they have made goodly images.
This speaks about the Exodus and driving out
of the idol and devil worshipping, child sacrificing Canaanites. This talks
about God’s planting of Israel in the land promised to them and about the
judgment that He inflicted on them for their apostasy through agents such as
the Assyrians and the Babylonians, metaphorically, with types such as the boar
and the wild beast.
See the reference to the Messiah to come from
the people of Israel in verse 17. While speaking directly about God’s faithful
man it alludes to Christ.
Daniel 7:13
I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came
with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought
him near before him.
Matthew 9:6
But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive
sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go
unto thine house.
Consider for us how God delivered the
Christian from the clutches of Satan and his or her own sin nature and then an
eternity of unquenchable suffering. Then, if we turned our back on God and
walked in the way of the heathen world He allowed us to suffer and see the
hedges He had placed around us be broken down. When we repent we plead for God
to turn back to us and deliver us from our self-inflicted sorrows. We are
always saved but He will deliver us out of our temporal distresses in many
cases as we repent of our preferred wickedness. This is a great prayer and
contemplation for a Christian who realizes how far they have strayed from the
fold of God and yearns for His sweet mercy.
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