Psalms 80:8-14

     8-11. brought—or, "plucked up," as by roots, to be replanted.

      a vine— (Ps 78:47). The figure (Isa 16:8) represents the flourishing state of Israel, as predicted (Ge 28:14), and verified (1Ki 4:20-25).

     12. hedges— (Isa 5:5).

     13. The boar—may represent the ravaging Assyrian and

      the wild beast—other heathen.

     14, 15. visit this vine—favorably (Ps 8:4).

Jeremiah 23:7-8

     7, 8. Repeated from Jer 16:14, 15. The prophet said the same things often, in order that his sayings might make the more impression. The same promise as in Jer 23:3, 4. The wide dispersion of the Jews at the Babylonish captivity prefigures their present wider dispersion (Isa 11:11; Joe 3:6). Their second deliverance is to exceed far the former one from Egypt. But the deliverance from Babylon was inferior to that from Egypt in respect to the miracles performed and the numbers delivered. The final deliverance under Messiah must, therefore, be meant, of which that from Babylon was the earnest.

Jeremiah 32:21

     21. (Ps 136:11, 12).

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