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Psalms 80:17

A repetition of Psalms 80:15, dropping the metaphor. Extend Thy hand, put forth Thy power to protect the people which Thy right hand made into a nation and delivered from Egypt. The son of mandescribes it as affected by human frailty and therefore needing divine help. The personification of Israel as Jehovah's son underlies the language of the verse. Possibly there is an allusion to Benjamin= -son of the right hand."

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 80:17. _THE MAN OF THY RIGHT HAND_] The only person who can be said to be at the right hand of God as intercessor, is JESUS the MESSIAH. Let him become our Deliverer: appoint him for thi...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    LET THY HAND BE UPON THE MAN OF THY RIGHT HAND - Luther renders this, “Let thy hand guard the folks of thy right hand, and the people whom thou hast powerfully chosen.” The right hand is the place of...

  • 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

    UPON: or over. MAN. Hebrew. _i_. _h_. App-14. SON OF MAN. son of Adam. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14. See note on Ezekiel 2:1....

  • 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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    LET THY HAND BE, &C.— _Let thy hand be over the prince; thy right arm over the young man thou hast invigorated for thyself._ Mudge. God is prayed to let his hand be _upon_ or _over him; i.e._ to suppo...

  • 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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself. LET THY HAND BE UPON THE MAN OF THY RIGHT HAND. "Benjamin" means 'son of the right hand:' as...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    80:17 man (i-16) Or 'Adam's son,' as Psalms 8:4 ....

  • 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

    LET THY HAND BE UPON] to protect. THE MAN OF THY RIGHT HAND] the nation of Israel personified, with a special allusion to the name Benjamin, which means' son of the right hand': see Psalms 80:15. SON...

  • 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". ...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    MAN OF THY RIGHT HAND. — This is manifestly a continuation of Psalms 80:15, and should follow it: — “Protect what thy right hand hath planted, The branch which thou hast made strong for thyself: Let...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 80:18]_ תְּֽהִי ־יָ֭דְךָ עַל ־אִ֣ישׁ יְמִינֶ֑ךָ...

  • 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

    “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...

  • 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

    Let thy hand be upon the (n) man of thy right hand, upon the son of man [whom] thou madest strong for thyself. (n) That is, on this vine or people, whom you have planted with your right hand, that th...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    And. Or "though." This increases their ingratitude. --- Filled. Hebrew, "I will fill thee;" which reading few admit. St. Jerome agrees with us. (Berthier) --- Protestants, (16) "the haters of the Lord...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE DIVINE MAN_ ‘Let Thy hand be upon the Man of Thy right hand.’ Psalms 80:17 In New Testament days I know the name of this transcendent and Divine Man. He is my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ....

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    17_Let that hand be upon the Man of thy right hand. _Here the Psalmist repeats in plain words the prayer which he had expressed under the figure of a vineyard, pleading that God would defend, under hi...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    LET THY HAND BE UPON THE MAN OF THY RIGHT HAND,.... Which some understand of the people of Israel in general, beloved, supported, and strengthened, by the Lord: and others of the then king of Israel,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man [whom] thou madest strong for thyself. Ver. 17. _The man of thy right hand_] _i.e._ Israel, or the Messiah....

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

    _Let thy hand_ Thy power, to protect and strengthen him; _be upon the man of thy right hand_ That king (whoever he was) of the house of David, that was now to rule and go in and out before them. He ca...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Let Thy hand, in favor and protection, BE UPON THE MAN OF THY RIGHT HAND, supported by God's almighty power, UPON THE SON OF MAN WHOM THOU MADEST STRONG FOR THYSELF, the reference being either to the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    17-19 The Messiah, the Protector and Saviour of the church, is the Man of God's right hand; he is the Arm of the Lord, for all power is given to him. In him is our strength, by which we are enabled to...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    UPON THE MAN, to protect and strengthen him. OF THY RIGHT HAND; whom thy right hand planted, PSALMS 80:15; whom thou hast loved and respected even as thy right hand, which is very dear to us, Matthew...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 80:17 hand H3027 man H376 hand H3225 son H1121 man H120 strong H553 (H8765)...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Let Thy hand be upon the man of Thy right hand._ CHRIST MADE STRONG FOR GOD Of Jesus only can it be unreservedly said, that He is the man of God’s right hand, and that He hath made Him strong for H...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 80:16 The final stanza continues the vine imagery from the previous section, describing the terrible deeds of the Gentile invaders: THEY HAVE BURNED IT (the vine) with fire; they...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Daniel 7:13; Daniel 7:14; Isaiah 53:5; John 5:21; Psalms 110:1;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Be — To protect and strengthen him. Right — hand — Benjamin signifies the son of the right hand, a dearly beloved son, as Benjamin was to Jacob. Son of man — The people of Israel, who are often spoken...

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