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Psalms 80:19

O Lord Godof hosts There is a climax in the use of divine names in the refrains (3, 7, 19). The Psalmist clenches his appeal by the use of the covenant name Jehovah, along with the title expressive of universal sovereignty, God of hosts.

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See also Psalms 80:19 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 80:19. _TURN AS AGAIN_] Redeem us from this captivity. _O LORD GOD OF HOSTS_] Thou who hast all power in heaven and earth, the innumerable _hosts_ of both worlds being at thy command....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    TURN US AGAIN, O LORD GOD OF HOSTS ... - See Psalms 80:3, note; Psalms 80:7, note; Psalms 80:14, note. This is the sum and the burden of the psalm. The repetition of the prayer shows the earnestness o...

  • 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

    O LORD, &C. See note on Psalms 80:3 and Psalms 80:7....

  • 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...

  • 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

    TURN US. — By a fine gradation in the style of the address to God, the refrain has at last reached its full tone, expressive of the completest trust — “God’s ways seem dark, but soon or late They tou...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 80:20]_ יְה֘וָ֤ה אֱלֹהִ֣ים צְבָאֹ֣ות הֲשִׁיבֵ֑נוּ הָאֵ֥ר

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    PSALM LXXX. (EXULTATE DEO.) An invitation to a solemn praising of God....

  • 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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS READER! if the church of old, with reference to Christ, as he who was to come as the Shepherd of Israel, thus prayed him to shine forth, and to show himself from between the cherubim, well...

  • 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

    TURN US AGAIN, O LORD GOD OF HOSTS,.... This is a repetition of Psalms 80:3, in which may be observed an increase of the names or titles of the Divine Being: in Psalms 80:3, it is only "O God"; in Ps...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. Ver. 19. _Turn us again_] See Psalms 80:7. Prayers are like arrows of deliverance, which would be multiplied and en...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts, cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved. Such a prayer will bring to the believers the quickening grace, which enables them to persevere in the right worship...

  • 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

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 80:19 Restore H7725 (H8685) LORD H3068 God H430 hosts H6635 face H6440 shine H215 (H8685) saved...

  • 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

    _Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts, cause Thy face to shine; and we shall be saved._ DIVINE GREATNESS AND DIVINE GRACIOUSNESS I. Divine greatness, “Lord God of hosts.” What hosts are under Him? All...

  • 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 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

    Jeremiah 3:22; Jeremiah 3:23; Psalms 27:4; Psalms 27:9; Psalms 31:16;...

  • 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...

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