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Verse Psalms 80:6. _THOU MAKEST US A STRIFE_] The neighbouring
districts have a controversy about us; we are a subject of contention
to them. A people so wonderfully preserved, and so wonderfully
pun...
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THOU MAKEST US A STRIFE - An occasion of strife or wrangling; that is,
of strife among themselves, to see who will get the most of our
spoils; or of contention, to see which could do most to aggravate...
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Psalms 80
Looking to Heaven for Help Through the Man at His Right Hand
_ 1. Calling to the Shepherd (Psalms 80:1)_
2. The ruin of His inheritance (Psalms 80:5)
3. The Man of the right hand ...
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LXXX. THEN AND NOW. THE MESSIANIC HOPE. The Ps. depicts Judah's
forlorn condition, first directly (Psalms 80:1) and then under the
figure of a vine (Psalms 80:8). It is divided into strophes by the
re...
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LAUGH AMONG THEMSELVES. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and
Vulgate, read "have mocked at us"....
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How long shall Israel continue to be the object of Jehovah's
displeasure, and the scorn of neighbouring nations?...
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_a strife_&c. An object of contention (Jeremiah 15:10): the petty
states round about (Psalms 79:4; Psalms 79:12), Edomites, Arabians,
and the like, quarrel among themselves for our territory. Lagarde...
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PSALMS 80
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
Prayer for the Flock and Vine of Israel.
ANALYSIS
Stanza I., Psalms 80:1-3, By Three Significant Titles, Jehovah is
besought to interpose for Salvation, before Three Sig...
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This Ps. is an appeal to God to save His people from the adversities
that have come upon them, and have made them the laughing stock of
their enemies (Psalms 80:1). Their past history is recalled unde...
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Psalms 73:89
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
MAKE US UNITED
PSALMS 80
Jesus said, "I pray for the people that will believe in me … that
they may be united. Then the world will believe that you sent me". ...
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A STRIFE — _i.e.,_ an object of contention. In no other sense could
Israel be a strife to neighbouring nations. For the bearing of this on
the date of the psalm see its Introduction.
LAUGH AMONG THEM...
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_[Psalms 80:7]_ תְּשִׂימֵ֣נוּ מָ֭דֹון לִ
שְׁכֵנֵ֑ינוּ וְ֝...
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Psalms 80:1
THIS psalm is a monument of some time of great national calamity; but
its allusions do not enable us to reach certainty as to what that
calamity was. Two striking features of it have been...
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“TURN US AGAIN, O GOD”
Psalms 80:1
The ten tribes were in captivity, and the hearts of their brethren,
still living at Jerusalem under the reign of David's line, seem to
have turned with great longin...
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Again we have a song out of the midst of distress. There is far more
light and colour about it than in the previous one. The circumstances
do not seem to be any more favourable than those described be...
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Thou makest us a (e) strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh
among themselves.
(e) Our neighbours have continual strife and war against us....
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Joseph. Who represents all the family of Israel, as he took care of
it. (Calmet) (Psalm lxxix. 2.) (Worthington) --- Not. The Israelites
heard the voice of God at Sinai, (St. Jerome, &c.; Calmet) and...
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These are most blessed tokens, and highly expressive of grace in the
heart. And the prayer, being again repeated, plainly shows from whence
alone the church looked for both the work of true prayer and...
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In Psalms 80 it is remarkable how we are upon the ground of Israel
here, their past or future historical associations, not Christ (though
all depends on Him, of course) or the godly Jew in the midst o...
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THOU MAKEST US A STRIFE UNTO OUR NEIGHBOURS,.... Either obliges us to
contend with them for our defence and safety; or having given us into
their hands, they strive and contend one with another about...
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Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh
among themselves.
Ver. 6. _Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours_] We have as many
enemies as neighbours, all striving to ensl...
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_How long wilt thou be angry_, &c. Thou art so far from answering our
prayers, whereby we seek thy favour, that, by thy continuing and
increasing our miseries, thou seemest to be more incensed against...
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Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors, the object of their taunts
and attacks; AND OUR ENEMIES LAUGH AMONG THEMSELVES, making mockery of
Israel's plight. Therefore the Church's pleading cry sound...
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PRAYER FOR THE DELIVERANCE OF THE CHURCH.
To the chief musician upon Shoshannim-Eduth, to be rendered in public
worship according to the melody "Lilies a Testimony," a psalm of
Asaph, the hymn referr...
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1-7 He that dwelleth upon the mercy-seat, is the good Shepherd of his
people. But we can neither expect the comfort of his love, nor the
protection of his arm, unless we partake of his converting gra...
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A STRIFE, i.e. the object or matter of their strife or contention;
either,
1. They strive one with another who shrill do us most mischief, or
take our spoils to themselves; or,
2. They are perpetual...
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Psalms 80:6 made H7760 (H8799) strife H4066 neighbors H7934 enemies
H341 (H8802) laugh H3932 (H8799)
Th
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Psalms 80:1. _Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph
like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strengt...
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CONTENTS: The tokens of God's favor besought and the former blessings
cited as a basis for present deliverance.
CHARACTERS: God, Asaph.
CONCLUSION: There is no obtaining favor with God until we are
c...
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Though we know not the occasion on which this song was composed, yet
as the tribes still inhabited the land, it probably was written on the
same occasion as the preseding, and prays for the same salva...
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_Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a
flock._
THE ALMIGHTY IN RELATION TO ERRING MAN
I. As a shepherd (Psalms 80:1).
1. His flock indicated. “Joseph” may stand for all Is...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 80:1. This is a community lament for a
situation in which the people have received hard treatment from the
Gentiles. It asks God to “restore us, let your face shine that we...
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 80:4 The people cry because God is ANGRY WITH
his PEOPLE’S PRAYERS (which implies that they have been unfaithful,
see...
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INTRODUCTION
_Superscription_.—“_To the chief Musician upon
Shoshannim-Eduth_.” On “_Shoshannim_” see Introduction to Psalms
45. Probably “Shoshannim—Eduth” denotes “the melody or air
‘after’ or ‘in t...
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EXPOSITION
A PSALM in which the writer entreats God to restore his favour once
more to Israel, and especially to the ten tribes, who are in
affliction, and in danger of perishing (Psalms 80:1, Psalms...
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Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock;
thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine foRuth (Psalms 80:1).
God's dwelling between the cherubim. Actually, in the book...
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Ezekiel 36:4; Isaiah 36:12; Isaiah 36:8; Isaiah 37:23; Jeremiah 15:1