Psalms 80:16

"the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself."

Key Reflection

In Psalms 80:16, the people are addressing God, invoking his role in bringing Israel out of Egypt and establishing them as a nation. The imagery of the “stock which your right hand planted” refers to Israel itself—viewed as a sapling growing from the divine act of deliverance. Similarly, the "branch that you made strong for yourself" symbolizes leadership or the Davidic king, whose strength and stability were attributed directly to God’s nurturing care and sovereign will.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

It is burned with fire -That is, the vineyard. This is a description of the desolations that had come upon the nation, such as would come upon a vineyard if it were consumed by fire. It is cut down -It has been made desolate by fire and by the axe. They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance -At the frown on thy face, as if God has only to look upon people in anger, and they perish. The word they refers to those who were represented by the vine which had been brought out of Egypt - the people of the land.

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