...scorn. 7 Turn us again, thou God of hosts ; show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole. 8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. 9 Thou madest room for it; and when it had taken root, it filled the land. 10 The hills were covered...

...image of a vine, has often been quoted as a fine ex- £~ _ample of metaphorical language. " Thou has brought a ^ ^ vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it : thou madest room for it ; and when it had ^ taken root, it filled the land. The hills were covered with...

...figurative language, and no less delicately receding back to the plain and unornamented narrative : " Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt ; " Thou hast cast out the nations and planted it, • "Thou preparedst room before it." — After this follow some figurative...

...than one, which has been frequently quoted, namely, that beautiful allegory in the eightieth Psalm. "Thou hast " brought a vine out of Egypt : thou hast...heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst '•'room for it, and didst cause it to take deep "root, and it filled the land. The hills were "covered with...

...scorn. 7 Turn us again, thou God of hosts : shew the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole. 8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. 9 Thou madest room for it : and when it had taken root it filled the land. 10 The hills were covered...

...themselves. 7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. 8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. 9 Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. 10...

...figurative language, and no less delicately receding back to the plain and unornamented narrative. " Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt ; " Thou hast cast out the nations and planted it, " Thou preparedst room before it"——— After this follow some figurative...

...to be found than the following, in which a vineyard is made to represent God's own people the Jews. Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with its shadow, and...

...carried from the world to the church ; from nature to grace ; from sin to godliness, Psal. Ixxx. 3. " Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; thou hast cast out the Heathen, and planted it." Of some of the branches of this vine were there unfruitful professors. It must be concluded, therefore,...

...figurative language, and no less delicately receding back to the plain and unornamented narrative. " Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt ; " Thou hast cast out the nations and planted it, " Thou preparedst room before it" — — After this follow some figurative...