Psalms 80
Psalms 80 is part of “Book III: The Leviticus Book” (73–89) in the outline of Psalms.
Psalms 80 summary
This psalm is much to the same purport with the foregoing. Some think it was penned upon occasion of the desolation and captivity of the ten tribes, as the foregoing psalm of the two. But many were the distresses of the Israel of God, many perhaps which are not recorded in the sacred history some whereof might give occasion for the drawing up of this psalm, which is proper to be sung in the day of Jacob's trouble, and if, in singing it, we express a true love to the church and a hearty concern for its interest, with a firm confidence in God's power to help it out of its greatest distresses, we make melody with our hearts to the Lord. The…
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This psalm is much to the same purport with the foregoing. Some think it was penned upon occasion of the desolation and captivity of the ten tribes, as the foregoing psalm of the two. But many were the distresses of the Israel of God, many perhaps which are not recorded in the sacred history some whereof might give occasion for the drawing up of this psalm, which is proper to be sung in the day of Jacob's trouble, and if, in singing it, we express a true love to the church and a hearty concern for its interest, with a firm confidence in God's power to help it out of its greatest distresses, we make melody with our hearts to the Lord. The psalmist here, I. Begs for the tokens of God's presence with them and favour to them (Psa 80:1-3). II. He complains of the present rebukes they were under (Psa 80:4-7). III. He illustrates the present desolations of the church, by the comparison of a vine and a vineyard, which had flourished, but was now destroyed (Psa 80:8-16). IV. He concludes with prayer to God for the preparing of mercy for them and the preparing of them for mercy (Psa 80:17-19). This, as many psalms before and after, relates to the public interests of God's Israel, which ought to lie nearer to our hearts than any secular interest of our own. To the chief musician upon Shoshannim, Eduth. A psalm of Asaph.
Source: Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (1706–21; Romans–Revelation completed by Nonconformist ministers). Public domain. Digital text: Free Use Bible API (bible.helloao.org).
Psalms 80 (ASV)
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Restore Us, O God
1For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim Eduth. A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; Thou that sittest [above] the cherubim, shine forth. 2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy might, And come to save us. 3Turn us again, O God; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved. 4O Jehovah God of hosts, How long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? 5Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure. 6Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors; And our enemies laugh among themselves. 7Turn us again, O God of hosts; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved. 8Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt: Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it. 9Thou preparedst [room] before it, And it took deep root, and filled the land. 10The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were [like] cedars of God. 11It sent out its branches unto the sea, And its shoots unto the River. 12Why hast thou broken down its walls, So that all they that pass by the way do pluck it? 13The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, And the wild beasts of the field feed on it. 14Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine, 15And the stock which thy right hand planted, And the branch that thou madest strong for thyself. 16It is burned with fire, it is cut down: They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. 17Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, Upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself. 18So shall we not go back from thee: Quicken thou us, and we will call upon thy name. 19Turn us again, O Jehovah God of hosts; Cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.