Psalm 80 Free Bible Version
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Notes on this text (1)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
1 For the music director. A psalm of Asaph. To the tune “Lilies of the Covenant.” Please hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead the descendants of Joseph like a flock. You who sit on your throne above the cherubim, shine out
1 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 out.
2 in the presence of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Gather together your power and come to save us!
2 Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us!
3 God, please restore us! Let your face shine on us so we can be saved.
3 Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
4 Lord God Almighty, how long will you be angry with the prayers of your people?
4 Yahweh God of Armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
5 You fed them with the bread of tears, and gave them a full bowl of tears to drink.
5 You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
6 You turn us into victims our neighbors fight over; our enemies mock us.
6 You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.
7 God Almighty, please restore us! Let your face shine on us so we can be saved!
7 Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
8 You carried us out of Egypt like a vine. You drove out the heathen nations, and then you planted the vine.
8 You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.
9 You prepared the ground for the vine. It took root and filled the land.
9 You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.
10 The mountains were covered by its shade; its branches covered the great cedars.
10 The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God’s cedars.
11 It sent its branches as far west as the Mediterranean Sea, and its shoots as far east as the Euphrates River.
11 It sent out its branches to the sea, its shoots to the River.
12 So why have you broken down the walls that protect it so that everyone who passes by can steal its fruit?
12 Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
13 Wild pigs from the forest eat it, wild animals feed on it.
13 The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.
14 God Almighty, please return to us! Look down from heaven and see what's happening to us! Come and care for this vine
14 Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,
15 that you planted yourself, this son that you brought up yourself.
15 the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself.
16 We, your vine, have been chopped down and burned. May those who did this die when you glare at them.
16 It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.
17 Protect the man who stands beside you; strengthen the son you have chosen.
17 Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
18 Then we will not turn away from you. Revive us so we can pray to you.
18 So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.
19 Lord God Almighty, please restore us! Let your face shine on us so we can be saved.
19 Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
Cross references (19)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Revelation 21:23; Psalm 77:20; Psalm 50:2; Psalm 99:1; Isaiah 63:11
- 2 Psalm 35:23; Numbers 2:18–24; Isaiah 42:13–14; Psalm 44:23–26; Numbers 10:22–24
- 3 Lamentations 5:21; Numbers 6:25–26; Psalm 85:4; Psalm 80:7; Psalm 80:19
- 4 Psalm 85:5; Psalm 79:5; Isaiah 58:2–3; Isaiah 58:6–9; Luke 18:1–8
- 5 Psalm 42:3; Isaiah 30:20; Psalm 102:9; Ezekiel 4:16–17; Job 6:7
- 6 Psalm 79:4; Judges 16:25; Jeremiah 48:27; Jeremiah 15:10; Isaiah 36:12–20
- 7 Psalm 51:10; Jeremiah 4:14; Isaiah 64:5; Psalm 80:19; Psalm 80:3
- 8 Jeremiah 2:21; Ezekiel 17:6; Psalm 44:2; Jeremiah 12:10; John 15:1–8
- 9 Joshua 24:12; Isaiah 27:6; Exodus 23:28–30; Jeremiah 12:2; Joshua 23:13–15
- 10 Psalm 104:16
- 11 Psalm 72:8; 1 Chronicles 18:3; 1 Kings 4:21; 1 Kings 4:24; Exodus 23:31
- 12 Isaiah 5:5; Luke 20:16; Psalm 89:40–41; Isaiah 18:5–6; Nahum 2:2
- 13 Jeremiah 4:7; Jeremiah 5:6; Jeremiah 52:7; 2 Kings 24:1–20; 2 Kings 18:1–19
- 14 Isaiah 63:15; Malachi 3:7; Isaiah 63:17; Daniel 9:16–19; Psalm 90:13
- 15 John 15:1; Zechariah 3:8; Zechariah 6:12; Jeremiah 2:21; Mark 12:1
- 16 Psalm 39:11; John 15:6; 2 Thessalonians 1:9; Psalm 79:5; Psalm 76:6–7
- 17 Psalm 110:1; Daniel 7:13–14; Psalm 89:21; Psalm 80:15; Isaiah 53:5
- 18 Psalm 119:107; Psalm 119:25; Psalm 119:40; John 6:66–69; Philippians 2:12–13
- 19 Jeremiah 3:22–23; Psalm 27:4; Psalm 80:3; Psalm 80:1; Psalm 44:3
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
"O God, the Gentiles have come into Thine inheritance" (ver. 1). Under which form of expression other things which were to come to pass, are spoken of as having been done. Nor must this be wondered at, that these words are being spoken to God.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
As also David says, when entreating His manifestation, "Thou that sittest between the cherubim, shine forth." For the cherubim, too, were four-faced, and their faces were images of the dispensation of the Son of God.
"Turn us again, O Lord God of Hosts, cause Thy face to shine; and we shall be saved." For whithersoever the soul of man turns itself, unless towards Thee, it is affixed to sorrows, yea, though it is affixed to beauteous things without Thee and without itself.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
For indeed the Scripture is ever wont to call the law a hedge; as the prophet saith: "Thou hast broken down her hedge, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck off her grapes:" and, "I have set a hedge about it:" and Paul, "Having broken down the middle wall of the hedge." But others say, that …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
… the Lord and guided them." And pray do not again understand by this guidance some humble service, for the Word witnesses that it was the work of God;--"Thou leddest thy people," it is said "like a flock," and "Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock," and "He led them on safely, so that they feared not." Thus when you hear …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)