Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 80:3
(c) Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
(c) Join your whole people, and all your tribes together again.
(c) Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
(c) Join your whole people, and all your tribes together again.
Verse Psalms 80:3. _TURN US AGAIN_] השיבנו _hashibenu, convert_ or _restore_ _us_. There are _four_ parts in this Psalm, _three_ of which end with the above words; see the _third, seventh_, and _ninet...
TURN US AGAIN - This phrase in our translation would seem to mean, “Turn us again from our sins,” or, “Bring us back to our duty, and to thy love;” and this idea is commonly attached to the phrase pro...
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...
TURN US AGAIN. Figure of speech _Cycloides_ (App-6) governing the Structure. Compare verses: Psalms 80:7; Psalms 80:19. Not from captivity, but from idolatry to the true worship. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim....
A prayer for the restoration of God's favour to His people....
_Turn us again_ Usually taken to mean _bring us back_from exile, or more generally, _restore us:_repair our broken fortunes. Cp. Psalms 60:1. But is it not rather an allusion to Ephraim's prayer in Je...
TURN US AGAIN, O GOD— There are evidently _four_ parts in this psalm; all of which conclude with this verse, or with one varying very little from it. In the _first,_ the Psalmist intreats God to assis...
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...
Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. TURN US AGAIN ie reverse our captivity (; ) Bring us back from exile This is especially the sense TURN US AGAIN - i:e., rev...
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...
This v. recurs as a refrain in Psalms 80:7; Psalms 80:19. TURN US AGAIN] bring us back from captivity. CAUSE THY FACE TO SHINE] from Numbers 6:25....
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". ...
TURN US AGAIN — _i.e._, “restore us,” not necessarily with reference to the Captivity, but generally, _restore us to our pristine prosperity._ CAUSE THY FACE TO SHINE. — The desert encampment and mar...
_[Psalms 80:4]_ אֱלֹהִ֥ים הֲשִׁיבֵ֑נוּ וְ הָאֵ֥ר פָּ֝נֶ֗יךָ...
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...
“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...
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...
These tribes, Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, are probably put for all Israel. As if the church begged that Christ's favor to his people should be as conspicuous, as the pillar of cloud had been in t...
3_Turn us again, O God! _The meaning of this prayer is, Restore us to our former state. They had petitioned, in the preceding verse, that God would stir up his strength in the sight of Ephraim and Man...
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...
TURN US AGAIN, O GOD,.... From our captivity, as the Targum, into our own land; or return us backsliding sinners to thyself by repentance; turn us, and we shall be turned; for the prayer shows it was...
Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. Ver. 3. _Turn us again_] Turn again our captivity, or show thyself reconciled unto us in Christ, who is here called the face...
_Turn us again_ He means, either to our former quiet and flourishing state; or, to thyself, from whom Ephraim and Manasseh, with the rest of the ten tribes, have apostatized. See a similar prayer of E...
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...
Turn us again, bringing them back, delivering them out of all the misery with which they were contending, O GOD, AND CAUSE THY FACE TO SHINE, in the glory of His loving-kindness and tender mercies; AN...
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...
TURN US AGAIN; either, l. To our former quiet and flourishing estate; or, 2. To thyself, from whom Ephraim and Manasseh with the rest of the ten tribes have apostatized. See the like prayer of Elijah...
Psalms 80:3 Restore H7725 (H8685) God H430 face H6440 shine H215 (H8685) saved H3467 (H8735) Turn us -...
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 80:3 LET YOUR FACE SHINE recalls Aaron’s blessing (Numbers 6:25)....
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 Kings 18:37; Jeremiah 31:18; Jeremiah 31:19; Lamentations 5:21;...
Turn us — To thy self....