Psalms 80
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The writer makes complaint about the miseries of the church
Verse 1
WEB For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm by Asaph. Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine forth.
KJV To the chief Musician upon Shoshannimeduth, A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
TSK A. M. cir. 3463. B.C. cir. 541. Shoshannim-Eduth: ps 45:1, ps 60:1, ps 69:1; Give ear: ps 5:1, ps 55:1; O Shepherd: ps 23:1,2, isa 40:11, eze 34:23, joh 10:14, heb 13:20, 1pe 2:25, 1pe 5:4; leadest: ps 77:20, ps 78:52, isa 49:9,10, isa 63:11, joh 10:3,4; dwellest: ps 99:1, ex 25:20-22, 1sa 4:4, 2sa 6:2, 2ki 19:15, eze 1:13, eze 10:4; shine: ps 80:3,7,19, ps 50:2, ps 94:1, de 33:2, job 10:3, isa 60:1, eze 43:2, da 9:17, re 21:23
Verse 2
WEB Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us!
KJV Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.
TSK Before: nu 2:18-24, nu 10:22-24; stir up: ps 35:23, ps 44:23-26, ps 78:38, isa 42:13,14; come and save us: isa 25:9, isa 33:22
Verse 3
WEB Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
KJV Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
TSK Turn us: ps 80:7,19, ps 85:4, 1ki 18:37, jer 31:18,19, la 5:21; cause: ps 80:1, ps 4:6, ps 67:1, ps 119:135, nu 6:25,26
Verse 4
WEB Yahweh God of Armies, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
KJV O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
TSK how long: ps 85:5, isa 58:2,3,6-9, la 3:44, mt 15:22-28, lu 18:1-8; be angry: ps 74:1, de 29:20
Verse 5
WEB You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
KJV Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
TSK Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.: ps 42:3, ps 102:9, job 6:7, isa 30:20, eze 4:16,17
Verse 6
WEB You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.
KJV Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
TSK Thou: jer 15:10; our enemies: ps 44:13,14, ps 79:4, jud 16:25, isa 36:8,12-20, isa 37:23, jer 48:27, eze 36:4, re 11:10
Verse 7
WEB Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
KJV Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
TSK Turn: ps 80:3,19, ps 51:10, lu 1:16; we shall: isa 30:15, isa 64:5, jer 4:14, mr 4:12, 2ti 2:25,26
Its former well-being and wealth and present desolation
Verse 8
WEB You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.
KJV Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
TSK a vine: isa 5:1-7, isa 27:2,3, jer 2:21, eze 15:6, eze 17:6, eze 19:10, mt 21:33-41, joh 15:1-8; thou hast cast: ps 44:2, ps 78:55, jer 18:9,10
Verse 9
WEB You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.
KJV Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
TSK preparedst: ps 105:44, ex 23:28-30, jos 23:13-15, jos 24:12, ne 9:22-25; to take: isa 27:6, isa 37:31, jer 12:2; and it: 1ki 4:20,25, 1ch 21:5, 1ch 27:23,24
Verse 10
WEB The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God’s cedars.
KJV The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
TSK goodly cedars: ps 104:16
Verse 11
WEB It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River.
KJV She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
TSK She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.: ps 72:8, ge 15:18, ex 23:31, 1ki 4:21,24, 1ch 18:3
Verse 12
WEB Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
KJV Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
TSK broken: ps 89:40,41, isa 5:5, isa 18:5,6, na 2:2, lu 20:16
Verse 13
WEB The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.
KJV The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
TSK The boar: 2ki 18:1-19, 2ki 24:1-25, 2ch 32:1-33, 2ch 36:1-23, jer 4:7, jer 39:1-3, jer 51:34, jer 52:7,12-14
Verse 14
WEB Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,
KJV Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
TSK Return: ps 7:7, ps 90:13, isa 63:15,17, joe 2:14, mal 3:7, ac 15:16; look down: ps 33:13, isa 63:15, la 3:50, da 9:16-19
Verse 15
WEB the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself.
KJV And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
TSK vineyard: ps 80:8, isa 5:1,2, jer 2:21, mr 12:1, joh 15:1; the branch: ps 89:21, isa 11:1, isa 49:5, jer 23:5,6, eze 17:22-24, zec 3:8, zec 6:12
A prayer for mercy
Verse 17
WEB Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
KJV Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
TSK Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.: ps 80:15, ps 89:21, ps 110:1, isa 53:5, da 7:13,14, joh 5:21-29
Verse 18
WEB So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.
KJV So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
TSK So will: ps 79:13, joh 6:66-69, heb 10:38,39; quicken: ps 85:6, ps 119:25,37,40,107,154,156, so 1:4, php 2:12,13, eph 2:1-5