Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 80:18
Go back — Revolt from thee to idolatry or wickedness. Quicken — Revive and restore us to our tranquility.
Go back — Revolt from thee to idolatry or wickedness. Quicken — Revive and restore us to our tranquility.
Verse Psalms 80:18. _SO WILL NOT WE GO BACK FROM THEE_] We shall no more become _idolaters_: and it is allowed on all hands that the Jews were never guilty of idolatry after their return from the Baby...
SO WILL NOT WE GO BACK FROM THEE - That is, if thou wilt thus interpose; if thou wilt deliver the nation; if thou wilt help him whom thou hast placed over it, giving him wisdom and valor, we will here...
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...
QUICKEN. make alive, restore, revive....
Repeated prayers for the restoration of God's favour to Israel....
So shall we not go back from thee (R.V.), bound to Thee by a fresh tie of allegiance. _quicken us_ The restoration of our national life (Hosea 6:2) will evoke a fresh response of grateful praise....
DISCOURSE: 636 THE EFFICACY OF PRAYER Psalms 80:17. _Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself. So will not we go back from thee: quicken...
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...
So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name. SO WILL NOT WE GO BACK FROM THEE. No longer can Israel say as in . But they promise not to "go back" from the Lord any...
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...
QUICKEN] make alive, revive....
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". ...
_[Psalms 80:19]_ וְ לֹא ־נָסֹ֥וג מִמֶּ֑ךָּ תְּ֝חַיֵּ֗נוּ...
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...
So will not we go back from thee: (o) quicken us, and we will call upon thy name. (o) For no one can call on God but such as are raised up as it were from death to life, and regenerate by the Holy Sp...
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...
In the 18th verse, the faithful engage, upon God’s hearing them, gratefully to acknowledge his goodness, not only by rendering to him the sacrifice of praise, but also by their whole life. _Calling up...
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...
SO WILL NOT WE GO BACK FROM THEE,.... From thy fear, as the Targum; or from thy service, as Kimchi; doing as above would encourage them to stand before the Lord, and worship him; which they could not...
So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name. Ver. 18. _So will not we go back_] A promise of gratitude, which is usually annexed to prayers for deliverance....
_Let thy hand_ Thy power, to protect and strengthen him; _be upon the man of thy right hand_ That king (whoever he was) of the house of David, that was now to rule and go in and out before them. He ca...
So will not we go back from Thee, never forsaking the Lord of their salvation. QUICKEN US, blessing them with new spiritual life, AND WE WILL CALL UPON THY NAME, proclaiming the Lord as He has reveale...
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...
17-19 The Messiah, the Protector and Saviour of the church, is the Man of God's right hand; he is the Arm of the Lord, for all power is given to him. In him is our strength, by which we are enabled to...
This glorious favour of thine shall oblige us to love and serve thee, and trust in thee so long as we have a being, and no more to revolt from thee to idolatry or wickedness, as we have too oft done....
Psalms 80:18 back H5472 (H8799) Revive H2421 (H8762) call H7121 (H8799) name H8034 So will -...
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...
_So will not we go back from Thee._ APOSTASY FROM GOD I. Wherein lies the true nature of apostasy from God. 1. Every failure and defect in the exercise of grace is not to be reckoned as an apostasy...
_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...
Ephesians 2:1; Hebrews 10:38; Hebrews 10:39; John 6:66; Philip
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...