Return, turning back His eyes which had been turned away in anger, we beseech Thee, O God of hosts, with His unlimited resources; look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine, once more taking an active interest in its welfare, supporting it in its present difficulty;
Verse Psalms 80:14. _RETURN - O GOD OF HOSTS_] Thou hast _abandoned_ us, and therefore our enemies have us in captivity. _Come back_ to us, and we shall again be restored. _BEHOLD, AND VISIT THIS VIN...
RETURN, WE BESEECH THEE, O GOD OF HOSTS - Again come and visit thy people; come back again to thy forsaken land. This is language founded on the idea that God had withdrawn from the land, or had forsa...
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...
RETURN. Compare verses: Psalms 80:3; Psalms 80:7; Psalms 80:19, and see the Structure above. AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6) for emphasis. Almost an Ellipsis. "[once more] look d...
_Return_ Or, as R.V., Turn again. It is the intransitive form of the verb _turn us again in_Psalms 80:3_; Psalms 80:7; Psalms 80:19_....
Repeated prayers for the restoration of God's favour to Israel....
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...
Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; RETURN, WE BESEECH THEE, O GOD OF HOSTS - (cf. .) The beginning of the second half is marked by "O G...
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 80:15]_ אֱלֹהִ֣ים צְבָאֹות֮ שֽׁ֫וּב ־נָ֥א הַבֵּ֣ט...
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...
Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down (k) from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; (k) They gave no place to temptation, knowing that even though there was no help in earth, yet God...
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...
14._Return, I beseech thee, O God of Hosts! _In these words it is intended to teach, that we ought not to yield to temptation although God should hide his face from us for a time, yea even although to...
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...
RETURN, WE BESEECH THEE, O GOD OF HOSTS,.... The Lord had been with his vine, the people of Israel, when he brought them out of Egypt, and planted and settled them in the land of Canaan, and made them...
Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; Ver. 14. _Visit this vine_] Some understand it of Christ's incarnation, Luke 1:78 ....
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...
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Psalms 80:14 Return H7725 (H8798) God H430 hosts H6635 down H5027 (H8685) heaven H8064 see H7200 ...
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...
Acts 15:16; Daniel 9:16; Isaiah 63:15; Isaiah 63:17; Joel 2:14;...
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...