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Psalms 80:11
She sent out her boughs unto the sea, for the Israelites occupied the land down to the Mediterranean Sea in the West, and her branches unto the river, the northeastern boundary being the Euphrates.
She sent out her boughs unto the sea, for the Israelites occupied the land down to the Mediterranean Sea in the West, and her branches unto the river, the northeastern boundary being the Euphrates.
Verse Psalms 80:11. _SHE SENT OUT HER BOUGHS UNTO THE SEA AND HER BRANCHES_ _UNTO THE RIVER._] The Israelitish empire extended from the River _Euphrates_ on the east to the _Mediterranean Sea_ on the...
SHE SENT OUT HER BOUGHS UNTO THE SEA - To the Mediterranean Sea on the one side. AND HER BRANCHES - Her sucklings. The word is usually applied to little children, and means here the little branches t...
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...
THE SEA: i.e. the Mediterranean. BRANCHES. roots, or suckers. THE RIVER: i.e. the Euphrates....
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...
She sent out her branches unto the sea, And her shoots unto the River (R.V.), spreading westward to the Mediterranean, and eastward to the Euphrates, boundaries approximately realised in the time of...
SHE SENT OUT HER BOUGHS, &C.— That is to the Mediterranean sea, and to the river Euphrates; alluding to the extent of the Israelitish dominions. The enemies and destroyers of Israel are represented un...
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...
She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river. SHE SENT OUT HER BOUGHS UNTO THE SEA, AND HER BRANCHES UNTO THE RIVER. "The sea" is the Mediterranean, the western boundary of...
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...
THE SEA] the Mediterranean on the W. THE RIVER] RV 'River': the Euphrates on the E. These were the ideal boundaries of Israel (Genesis 15:18; Exodus 23:31; Deuteronomy 11:24;...
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". ...
THE SEA... THE RIVER — _i.e.,_ the Mediterranean and the Euphrates, the limits of the Solomonic empire. (See Deuteronomy 11:24; comp. Genesis 28:14; Joshua 1:4.)...
_[Psalms 80:12]_ תְּשַׁלַּ֣ח קְצִירֶ֣הָ עַד ־יָ֑ם וְ...
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...
She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the (h) river. (h) That is, Euphrates....
_Fill it. I will grant all thy just requests, if thou be faithful. (Eusebius) (Calmet) (Worthington) --- God uses the title of Jehovah, "the Eternal self-existent Being." (Berthier)_...
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...
SHE SENT OUT HER BOUGHS UNTO THE SEA,.... The Mediterranean, or midland sea, which was the border of the land of Canaan to the west: AND HER BRANCHES UNTO THE RIVER; the river Euphrates, which was it...
She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river. Ver. 11. _She sent out her boughs unto the sea_] The midland sea. _ And her branches unto the river_] Euphrates. This was first...
_The hills were covered with the shadow of it_ Its branches extended themselves over all the hills and mountains of Canaan; that is, the people multiplied so much, and became so numerous, that they fi...
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...
They possessed or subdued the whole land from the midland sea to the river Euphrates; which were the bounds allotted to them by God, GENESIS 15:18....
Psalms 80:11 out H7971 (H8762) boughs H7105 Sea H3220 branches H3127 River H5104 Psalms 72:8
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 18:3; 1 Kings 4:21; 1 Kings 4:24; Exodus 23:31; Gen
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...
The river — They possessed the whole land, from the mid — land sea to the river Euphrates....