Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Psalms 80:9
Thou preparedst room. — The reference is, of course, to the casting out of the heathen in Psalms 80:8.
Didst cause ... — Rather, it struck its roots deep; literally, rooted its roots.
Thou preparedst room. — The reference is, of course, to the casting out of the heathen in Psalms 80:8.
Didst cause ... — Rather, it struck its roots deep; literally, rooted its roots.
Verse Psalms 80:9. _THOU PREPAREDST - BEFORE IT_] 3. When the ground is properly cleared, then it is well digged and manured, and the vines are placed in the ground at proper distances, c. So when God...
THOU PREPAREDST ROOM BEFORE IT - The Hebrew word used here means properly to turn; to turn the back; then, to turn in order to look at anything; to look upon; to see; then, in Piel, to cause to turn a...
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...
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...
_Thou preparedst_room _before it_ As the vinedresser prepares the ground for his vine by clearing away the stones and thorns and all that would hinder its free growth (Isaiah 5:2), so God prepared Can...
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...
Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. THOU PREPAREDST (ROOM) BEFORE IT - `Thou hast cleared out a place before it.' It answers to , "He gath...
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". ...
_[Psalms 80:10]_ פִּנִּ֥יתָ לְ פָנֶ֑יהָ וַ תַּשְׁרֵ֥שׁ...
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...
_Testify. Instruct, or call heaven to witness our covenant. (Calmet) --- Man has free will, and may choose whether he will obey or not. (Worthington)_...
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...
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...
THOU PREPAREDST ROOM BEFORE IT,.... By sending the hornet before the Israelites, and driving the Canaanites out of the land, Exodus 23:28 and so the Targum, "thou didst remove from before thee the C...
Thou preparedst [room] before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. Ver. 9. _Thou preparedst room before it_] Espying out a fit place to plant it in, Ezekiel 20:6, and mak...
_Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt_ Israel, or the church of God, is often compared to a vine: see Isaiah 5:2; Jeremiah 2:21; Ezekiel 17:6; Matthew 21:3
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...
Thou preparedst room before it, providing sufficient space for physical expansion, AND DIDST CAUSE IT TO TAKE DEEP ROOT, Israel being established firmly also as a nation, with the idea of the Lord's p...
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...
THOU PREPAREDST ROOM; or, didst purge or cleanse the soil; taking out stones or sticks, or other roots or plants, which might hinder its growth or fruitfulness. Thou didst root out those idolatrous an...
Psalms 80:9 prepared H6437 (H8765) for H6440 deep H8328 root H8327 (H8686) filled H4390 (H8762) land...
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...
1 Chronicles 21:5; 1 Chronicles 27:23; 1 Chronicles 27:24; 1 Kings 4:20;...
Preparedst — Thou didst root out the idolatrous nations. Deep root — Thou gavest them a firm settlement....