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Psalm 80 Literal Standard Version
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- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
1 TO THE OVERSEER. [SET] TO “LILIES OF TESTIMONY.” A PSALM OF ASAPH. Shepherd of Israel, give ear, || Leading Joseph as a flock, || Inhabiting the cherubim—shine forth,
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 Before Ephraim, and Benjamin, and Manasseh, || Wake up Your might, and come for our salvation.
2 Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us!
3 O God, cause us to turn back, || And cause Your face to shine, and we are saved.
3 Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
4 YHWH, God of Hosts, until when? You have burned against the prayer of Your people.
4 Yahweh God of Armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
5 You have caused them to eat bread of tears, || And cause them to drink || With tears a third time.
5 You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
6 You make us a strife to our neighbors, || And our enemies mock at it.
6 You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.
7 God of Hosts, turn us back, || And cause Your face to shine, and we are saved.
7 Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
8 You bring a vine out of Egypt, || You cast out nations, and plant it.
8 You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.
9 You have looked before it, and root it, || And it fills the land,
9 You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.
10 Hills have been covered [with] its shadow, || And its boughs [are] cedars of God.
10 The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God’s cedars.
11 It sends forth its branches to the sea, || And its shoots to the river.
11 It sent out its branches to the sea, its shoots to the River.
12 Why have You broken down its hedges, || And everyone passing by the way has plucked it?
12 Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
13 A boar out of the forest tears it, || And a wild beast of the fields grazes it.
13 The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.
14 God of Hosts, turn back, we implore You, || Look from the heavens, and see, and inspect this vine,
14 Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,
15 And the root that Your right hand planted, || And the branch You made strong for Yourself,
15 the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself.
16 Burned with fire—cut down, || They perish from the rebuke of Your face.
16 It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.
17 Let Your hand be on the man of Your right hand || On the son of man You have strengthened for Yourself.
17 Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
18 And we do not go back from You, || You revive us, and in Your Name we call.
18 So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.
19 O YHWH, God of Hosts, turn us back, || Cause Your face to shine, and we are 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
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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)