7. In Psalm 80:8-15, what nation is compared to a “vine,” and why was there a cry for God’s consideration of it?

⁷ The likening of a nation to a grapevine was not new. Jesus’ own heavenly Father, Jehovah, used this plant as symbolic of a nation. For example, he inspired the psalmist Asaph to address him and say: “You [Jehovah] proceeded to make a vine depart from Egypt [in Moses’ day]. You kept driving out the nations [from the Promised Land], that you might plant it.

(Ps. 80:8-15)