Psalms 80:10

The hills The mountains.

the goodly cedars Cedars of God (El), those "which he hath planted," the indigenous cedars of Lebanon, noblest of forest trees. Cp. "mountains of God" (Psalms 36:6). The alternative rendering of R.V. marg., And the cedars of God with the boughs thereof, gives the same sense as the LXX. The vine grew so that it overshadowed the mountainous country to the South, and the cedars of Lebanon on the North, an allusion to the ideal boundaries of the Promised Land, as described in Deuteronomy 11:24 (where -the wilderness" = -the mountains" here). That the next verse clearly refers to the Eastern and Western boundaries is an argument in favour of this interpretation.