Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Psalms 80:13
Boar.. wild beast (RV 'beasts')] Israel's enemies, especially, perhaps, the Assyrians.
Boar.. wild beast (RV 'beasts')] Israel's enemies, especially, perhaps, the Assyrians.
Verse Psalms 80:13. _THE BOAR OUT OF THE WOOD_] Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, who was a fierce and cruel sovereign. The allusion is plain. The wild _hogs_ and _buffaloes_ make sad havoc in the _fie...
THE BOAR OUT OF THE WOOD - Men come in and ravage the land, whose character may be compared with the wild boar. The word rendered boar means simply swine. The addition of the phrase “out of the wood”...
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 WOOD. forest. The Hebrew word for forest here (_miyya'ar)_, has the letter _Ayin_ suspended (see note on Judges 18:30). This is the second of four such suspended letters (the other two being Job 3...
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...
The boar out of the forest doth ravage it, And the wild beasts of the field feed on it. "Under Hermon," says Dr Tristram, "in the vineyard districts, we heard grievous lamentations of the damage don...
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...
The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. THE BOAR OUT OF THE WOOD DOTH WASTE IT, AND THE WILD BEAST OF THE FIELD DOTH DEVOUR IT. As "bulls" in, , symb...
80:13 beast (f-12) Or 'roaming creature,' as Psalms 50:11 ....
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". ...
BOAR. — This is the sole mention of the _wild_ boar in Scripture. But it must not therefore be inferred that it was rare in Palestine. (See Tristram’s _Nat. Hist. Bib.,_ p. 54.) The writer gives a sad...
_[Psalms 80:14]_ יְכַרְסְמֶ֣נָּֽה חֲזִ֣יר מִ יָּ֑עַר 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...
The (i) boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. (i) That is, they who hate our religion, as well as they who hate our persons....
_Inventions. Ancient psalters read, "wills." This is the greatest (Calmet) of God's judgments, Romans i. 24. (Menochius) --- He sometimes permits a person to go on, that he may be disgusted with sin....
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...
THE BOAR OUT OF THE WOOD DOTH WASTE IT,.... As Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, who carried the ten tribes captive; the title of this psalm in the Septuagint version is, a psalm for the Assyrian. Vitring...
The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. Ver. 13. _The boar out of the wood_] All swine (but wild ones especially) are _vitibus inimici,_ saith Theodore...
_Why hast thou broken down her hedges_ That is, taken away thy protection, which was to thy people for walls and bulwarks: _so that all they which pass by do pluck her_ Pluck off her grapes, or tear o...
The boar out of the wood, one of the neighboring nations, DOTH WASTE IT, cutting it down with his tusks, AND THE WILD BEAST OF THE FIELD, the reference here probably being to the nomad tribes of Arabi...
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...
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...
THE WOOD; where boars use to lodge, as it is noted by many authors; by which he understands their fierce and furious enemies....
Psalms 80:13 boar H2386 woods H3293 uproots H3765 (H8762) beast H2123 field H7704 devours H7462 (H8799)...
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...
_The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it._ PEOPLE TO BE FEARED By this homely but expressive figure, the text sets forth the bad influences which in old...
_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...
2 Chronicles 32:1; 2 Chronicles 36:1; 2 Kings 19:37; 2 Kings 25:30;...
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...