Psalm 80:9 {79:10}
Good News Translation
You cleared a place for it to grow; its roots went deep, and it spread out over the whole land.

New Revised Standard Version
You cleared the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land.

Contemporary English Version
Then you cleared the ground, and we put our roots deep, spreading over the land.

New American Bible
You cleared out what was before it; it took deep root and filled the land.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it filled the land.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it filled the land.

preparedst

Psalm 105:44 And he gave them the lands of the Gentiles: and they possessed the labours of the people:

Exodus 23:28-30 Sending out hornets before, that shall drive away the Hevite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, before thou come in. . . .

Joshua 23:13-15 Know ye for a certainty that the Lord your God will not destroy them before your face, but they shall be a pit and a snare in your way, and a stumbling-block at your side, and stakes in your eyes, till he take you away and destroy you from off this excellent land, which he hath given you. . . .

Joshua 24:12 And I sent before you and I drove them out from their places, the two kings of the Amorrhites, not with thy sword nor with thy bow,

Nehemiah 9:22-25 And thou gavest them kingdoms, and nations, and didst divide lots for them: and they possessed the land of Sehon, and the land of the king of Hesebon, and the land of Og king of Basan. . . .

to take

Isaiah 27:6 When they shall rush in unto Jacob, Israel shall blossom and bud, and they shall fill the face of the world with seed.

Isaiah 37:31 And that which shall be saved of the house of Juda, and which is left, shall take root downward, and shall bear fruit upward:

Jeremiah 12:2 Thou hast planted them, and they have taken root: they prosper and bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.

and it

1 Kings 4:20,25 Juda and Israel were innumerable, as the sand of the sea in multitude; eating and drinking, and rejoicing. . . .

1 Chronicles 21:5 And he gave David the number of them, whom he had surveyed: and all the number of Israel was found to be eleven hundred thousand men that drew the sword: and of Juda four hundred and seventy thousand fighting men.

1 Chronicles 27:23,24 But David would not number them from twenty years old and under: because the lord had said that he would multiply Israel like the stars of heaven. . . .

Context
Hear Us, O Shepherd of Israel
8Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the Gentiles and planted it. 9Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it filled the land.10The shadow of it covered the hills: and the branches thereof the cedars of God.…
Cross References
Exodus 23:28
Sending out hornets before, that shall drive away the Hevite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, before thou come in.

Joshua 24:12
And I sent before you and I drove them out from their places, the two kings of the Amorrhites, not with thy sword nor with thy bow,

Psalm 44:2
We have heard, O God, with our ears: our fathers have declared to us, The work thou hast wrought in their days, and in the days of old.

Isaiah 5:2
And he fenced it in, and picked the stones out of it, and planted it with the choicest vines, and built a tower in the midst thereof, and set up a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

Hosea 14:5
I will be as the dew, Israel shall spring as the lily, and his root shall shoot forth as that of Libanus.

Psalm 80:8
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