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You uprooted a vine (Israel) from Egypt;
You drove out the [Canaanite] nations and planted the vine [in Canaan].
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You cleared away the ground before it,
And it took deep root and filled the land.
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The mountains were covered with its shadow,
And its branches were like the cedars of God.
¹¹ 
Israel sent out its branches to the [Mediterranean] Sea,
And its branches to the [Euphrates] River.^(A)
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Why have You broken down its ^[a]walls and hedges,
So that all who pass by pick its fruit?
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A boar from the woods eats it away,
And the insects of the field feed on it.

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“Yet I had planted you [O house of Israel as] a choice vine,
A completely faithful seed.
How then have you turned against Me
Into degenerate shoots of a foreign and wild vine [alien to Me]?