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# You brought a vine out of Egypt
Asaph compares the nation of Israel to a vine made ready to transplant. Alternate translation: "You brought us, like a vine, out of Egypt" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-simile]])
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# you drove out nations and transplanted it
The psalmist speaks of his people as if they were a plant that Yahweh was transplanting. Alternate translation: "you drove out nations from their land and gave it to us, the vine, and planted us there" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# you drove out nations
It can be made clear where the nations were that God forced out. Alternate translation: "you forced nations out of this land" or "you forced nations to leave the land of Canaan" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])
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