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Psalms 80:18

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 anymore, if only the Lord will first quicken them; i:e., give them new life.

Quicken us, and we will call upon thy name (). God must first breaths into us the spirit of adoption, before we can call on Him as our Father ().

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See also Psalms 80:18 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    QUICKEN. make alive, restore, revive....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Repeated prayers for the restoration of God's favour to Israel....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    QUICKEN] make alive, revive....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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". ...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 80:19]_ וְ לֹא ־נָסֹ֥וג מִמֶּ֑ךָּ תְּ֝חַיֵּ֗נוּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ephesians 2:1; Hebrews 10:38; Hebrews 10:39; John 6:66; Philip

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Go back — Revolt from thee to idolatry or wickedness. Quicken — Revive and restore us to our tranquility....

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