1 To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim-eduth, 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. 2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come [and] save us. 3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. 4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? 5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure. 6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves. 7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. 8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. 9 Thou preparedst [room] before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. 10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof [were like] the goodly cedars. 11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river. 12 Why hast thou [then] broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? 13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. 14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; 15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch [that] thou madest strong for thyself. 16 [It is] burned with fire, [it is] cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. 17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man [whom] thou madest strong for thyself. 18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name. 19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
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Psalm 80 King James Version (with Apocrypha)
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Notes on this text (2)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
- Psalm titles are printed as the start of verse 1.
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
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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)