“Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.”
The psalm shifts to recounting God's past faithfulness: "You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it." The image of Israel as a divinely planted vine recalls covenantal election and God's decisive action on Israel's behalf. The removal of indigenous nations and the planting of Israel represent paradigmatic divine acts of salvation and covenant establishment.
Church Fathers on Psalms 80:8
1. ...If perchance things obscure demand the office of an interpreter, those things which are evident ought to require of me the office of a reader. The song here is of the Advent of the Lord and of our Saviour Jesus Christ, and of His vineyard. But the singer of the song is that Asaph, as far as does appear, enlightened and converted, by whose name ye know the synagogue to be signified. Lastly, the title of the Psalm is: “For the end in behalf of them that shall be changed;”…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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