Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 80:16
They — Thy people, signified by the vine. So now he passes from the metaphor to the thing designed by it.
They — Thy people, signified by the vine. So now he passes from the metaphor to the thing designed by it.
IT IS BURNED WITH FIRE - That is, the vineyard. This is a description of the desolations that had come upon the nation, such as would come upon a vineyard if it were consumed by fire. IT IS CUT DOWN...
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...
Repeated prayers for the restoration of God's favour to Israel....
The gender of the word shews that _it_refers to the vine. _Cut down_, as fit for nothing but fuel. Cp. Isaiah 33:12; Ezekiel 15:4. _they perish_&c. The figure is dropped. The Israelites perish, for G...
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...
It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. THEY PERISH AT THE REBUKE OF THY COUNTENANCE. "They" - i:e., the children of Israel. "At" - literally, from be...
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...
THEY PERISH] The figure of the vine is dropped here....
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". ...
IT IS BURNED. — This verse would certainly be far more intelligible, and also fit better into the rhythm, if it followed immediately after Psalms 80:13. The poet, while complaining that God fumed with...
_[Psalms 80:17]_ שְׂרֻפָ֣ה בָ † אֵ֣שׁ כְּסוּחָ֑ה...
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...
[It is] burned with fire, [it is] cut down: they perish at the (m) rebuke of thy countenance. (m) Only when you are angry and not of the sword of the enemy....
_Enemies. The faithless Israelites, (Calmet) or infidel nations. (Bossuet, &c.) --- Ever. Impenitent sinners shall suffer for ever. (Challoner) --- The Jews will scarcely be converted at last. (Menoch...
This is a beautiful and most interesting prayer: and, after the view which the apostle, hath given of this subject, in his Epistle to the Romans, to which I before referred, may we not consider it as...
16_It is burnt with fire. _The calamities of the people are now more clearly expressed. (399) It had been said that the Lord’s vine was abandoned to the wild beasts, that they might lay it waste. But...
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...
IT IS BURNT WITH FIRE, IT IS CUT DOWN,.... That is, the vine of Israel, and the branch before spoken of, alluding to a vine, and its branches; which, when become unprofitable, are cut down or cut off,...
__ Psalms 80:16 _[It is] burned with fire, [it is] cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance._ Ver. 16. _They perish_] _Scilicet palmites, et propagines,_ Psalms 80:10,11 ....
_It is burned with fire_, &c. Namely, thy vineyard or branch; since, upon our provoking sins, thou hast withdrawn thy mercy from us, the enemies have broken in upon us, and great numbers of us are des...
It is burned with fire, it is cut down, the reference being rather to the host of the enemy, which would be utterly destroyed by the avenging hand of the Lord; THEY PERISH AT THE REBUKE OF THY COUNTEN...
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...
IT IS BURNED WITH FIRE, to wit, thy vineyard or branch. THEY PERISH; thy people of Israel, signified by the vine. So now he passeth from the metaphor to the thing designed by it. AT THE REBUKE OF THY...
Psalms 80:16 burned H8313 (H8803) fire H784 down H3683 (H8803) perish H6 (H8799) rebuke H1606 countenance...
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 80:16 The final stanza continues the vine imagery from the previous section, describing the terrible deeds of the Gentile invaders: THEY HAVE BURNED IT (the vine) with fire; they...
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...
2 Thessalonians 1:9; Ezekiel 20:47; Ezekiel 20:48; Isaiah 27:11;...
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...