Rashi
Jewish
1040–1105
“and its branches were great cedars Heb. ארזי אל, like strong cedars, i.e., mighty kings.”
The interpretation timeline
Ps 79:11
How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.
From the early Church Fathers to now.
Ps 79:11 · Douay-Rheims
“The shadow of it covered the hills: and the branches thereof the cedars of God.”
Scholastic
c. 1100 – 1500
1105
A.D.
Modern · 1953 →
The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.