Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 80:12
Broken down her hedges; taken away thy protection, which was to them for walls and bulwarks. Pluck her; pluck up her grapes and boughs, and strike at her very root.
Broken down her hedges; taken away thy protection, which was to them for walls and bulwarks. Pluck her; pluck up her grapes and boughs, and strike at her very root.
Verse Psalms 80:12. _WHY HAST THOU BROKEN DOWN_] 7. When a vineyard is planted, it is properly _fenced_ to preserve it from being trodden down, or otherwise injured by beasts, and to protect the frui...
WHY HAST THOU THEN BROKEN DOWN HER HEDGES? - Why hast thou dealt with thy people as one would with a vineyard who should break down all its enclosures, and leave it open to wild beasts? The word rende...
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 ...
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...
WHY... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis_ (App-6), for emphasis....
_Why_&c. The question is half expostulation, half inquiry, for Israel's present plight is a riddle to the Psalmist. _hedges_ R.V. fences. Vineyards were always carefully fenced to protect them (Isaia...
Under the figure of a vine, once carefully tended and spreading far and wide in luxuriant growth, but now exposed to the ravages of wild beasts, the Psalmist contrasts God's former care for His people...
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...
Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? WHY HAST THOU THEN BROKEN DOWN HER HEDGES, SO THAT ALL THEY WHICH PASS BY THE WAY DO PLUCK HER? - i:e...
80:12 fences, (e-7) Or 'enclosure-walls.' see Ecclesiastes 10:8 ; Ezekiel 22:30 ....
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...
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". ...
PLUCK. — For the same image of the broken fence, and the fruit gathered by the passers by, see Psalms 89:40....
_[Psalms 80:13]_ לָ֭מָּה פָּרַ֣צְתָּ גְדֵרֶ֑יהָ וְ֝ אָר֗וּהָ...
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...
“CAUSE THY FACE TO SHINE” Psalms 80:8 The imagery of the vine is taken from Jacob's dying words, in which he compared Joseph to a fruitful bough which had grown over the wall, Genesis 49:22. It is th...
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...
If we read this in allusion, first, to the old church dispensation, and then again spiritually to the new, and the Holy Ghost condescends to be our teacher, we shall find rich instruction in the beaut...
12_Why then hast thou broken down its hedges? _This is the application of the similitude; for nothing seems more inconsistent than that God should abandon the vine which he had planted with his own ha...
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...
WHY HAST THOU THEN BROKEN DOWN HER HEDGES,.... After having done all this for her; which signifies the Lord's removing his presence, power, and protection, from Israel; which were the hedge he set abo...
Why hast thou [then] broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? Ver. 12. _Why hast thou then broken down her hedges?_] _i.e._ Taken away thy mighty hand hitherto hel...
_Why hast thou broken down her hedges_ That is, taken away thy protection, which was to thy people for walls and bulwarks: _so that all they which pass by do pluck her_ Pluck off her grapes, or tear o...
Why hast Thou, then, broken down her hedges, the picture of a vineyard with its sheltering hedge being retained, SO THAT ALL THEY WHICH PASS BY THE WAY DO PLUCK HER? the hedge having been removed, any...
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...
8-16 The church is represented as a vine and a vineyard. The root of this vine is Christ, the branches are believers. The church is like a vine, needing support, but spreading and fruitful. If a vine...
Psalms 80:12 down H6555 (H8804) hedges H1447 pass H5674 (H8802) way H1870 pluck H717 (H8804) broken -
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 80:8 This is the longest stanza, with its image of God’s people as a VINE for which God has cared and provided (see notes on Jer. 2:21;...
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...
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...
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...
Isaiah 18:5; Isaiah 18:6; Isaiah 5:5; Luke 20:16; Nahum 2:2;...
THE STORY OF THE VINE Psalms 80:10 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The vine tree is a type of Israel. When Jesus Christ gave the parable of the vine and the branches He said: "I am the True Vine, and * * ye...
Hedges — Taken away thy protection....