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13 lines
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The writer compares Israel as a vine.
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## You cleared the land for it; ##
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"You cleared the land for the vine;" (See: Metaphor)
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## and filled the land....to the Euphrates River. ##
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The writer describes the success of the nation of Israel in occupying the whole land by comparing to a vine that grows far beyond the normal. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hyperbole]])
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## shoots ##
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These are the parts of new plants that are just starting to grow above the ground.
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