You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it. You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land. The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God’s cedars. It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River. Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it? The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it. Turn […]
⛓ Read Psalm 80 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The transplanted vine that God planted and then exposes to ravagers reinforces the vineyard-as-Israel image and the motif of the owner withdrawing protection. Moderate volume; strongly coherent and recurrent with Isaiah 5, though it is the secondary vineyard text behind the parable.
Medium confidenceThe vine brought out of Egypt and planted, whose hedges God then breaks down so passers-by pluck it, is a second vineyard-as-Israel song reinforcing Isaiah 5 and the threat to remove the vineyard's protection (21:43).
Medium confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Psalm 80 is the other major vineyard-as-Israel poem, lamenting that God brought a vine out of Egypt, broke down its hedges, and prays for the 'son' he made strong. Its pairing of vineyard imagery with a 'son of man at God's right hand' coheres with Mark's parable and its sequel, making it a plausible secondary scriptural matrix alongside Isaiah 5.
Medium confidenceThe vine brought out of Egypt, now burned and cut down for lack of protection, parallels the threatened destruction of the unfruitful planting. Contested because no fig tree appears, but the vineyard-judgment frame is coherent.
Low confidenceThe vine/vineyard brought out of Egypt and tended by God is part of the same symbolic field; faint thematic resonance behind the kingdom-as-vineyard image rather than verbal borrowing.
Low confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
The vine 'brought out of Egypt' that God planted and tended is the controlling image Jesus reworks: Israel-as-vine becomes Jesus the true vine. High volume and coherence — Ps 80 also has God's hand burning/cutting the vine (v.16), feeding the imagery of branches thrown into the fire in 15:6, and v.17 'the son of man' whom God strengthens.
High confidence