Psalm - 80:11



11 It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River.

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Explanation and meaning of Psalm 80:11.

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She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
It stretched forth its branches unto the sea, and its boughs unto the river.
It sent out its boughs unto the sea, and its shoots unto the river.
She sent out her branches unto the sea, and her shoots unto the River.
It sendeth forth its branches unto the sea, And unto the river its sucklings.
It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River.
The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, And the mighty cedars with the boughs thereof.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

She sent out her boughs unto the sea - To the Mediterranean Sea on the one side.
And her branches - Her sucklings. The word is usually applied to little children, and means here the little branches that are nourished by the parent vine.
Unto the river - The Euphrates, for so the river usually means in the Scriptures. The Euphrates on the one side, and the Mediterranean Sea on the other, were the natural and proper boundaries of the country as promised to Abraham. See Psalm 72:8; 1-Kings 4:21. Compare the notes at Psalm 60:1-12.

She sent out her boughs unto the sea and her branches unto the river - The Israelitish empire extended from the River Euphrates on the east to the Mediterranean Sea on the west, and from the same Euphrates on the north of the promised land to its farthest extent on the south; Syria bounding the north, and Arabia and Egypt the south. And this was according to the promises which God had made to the fathers, Exodus 23:31; Deuteronomy 11:24.

She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the (h) river.
(h) That is, Euphrates.

She sent out her boughs unto the sea,.... The Mediterranean, or midland sea, which was the border of the land of Canaan to the west:
and her branches unto the river; the river Euphrates, which was its border to the east; see Deuteronomy 11:24. This, in the spiritual sense of it, will have its accomplishment in the church of Christ, when he shall have dominion from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth, Psalm 72:8. The Targum is,
"she sent out her disciples to the great sea, and to the river Euphrates her babes;''
or sucklings.

The river - They possessed the whole land, from the mid - land sea to the river Euphrates.

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