1 To the Overseer. — 'On the Lilies.' A testimony of Asaph. — A Psalm. Shepherd of Israel, give ear, Leading Joseph as a flock, Inhabiting the cherubs — shine forth, 2 Before Ephraim, and Benjamin, and Manasseh, Wake up Thy might, and come for our salvation. 3 O God, cause us to turn back, And cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved. 4 Jehovah, God of Hosts, till when? Thou hast burned against the prayer of Thy people. 5 Thou hast caused them to eat bread of tears, And causest them to drink With tears a third time. 6 Thou makest us a strife to our neighbours, And our enemies mock at it. 7 God of Hosts, turn us back, And cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved. 8 A vine out of Egypt Thou dost bring, Thou dost cast out nations, and plantest it. 9 Thou hast looked before it, and dost root it, And it filleth the land, 10 Covered have been hills [with] its shadow, And its boughs [are] cedars of God. 11 It sendeth forth its branches unto the sea, And unto the river its sucklings. 12 Why hast Thou broken down its hedges, And all passing by the way have plucked it? 13 A boar out of the forest doth waste it, And a wild beast of the fields consumeth it. 14 God of Hosts, turn back, we beseech Thee, Look from heaven, and see, and inspect this vine, 15 And the root that Thy right hand planted, And the branch Thou madest strong for Thee, 16 Burnt with fire — cut down, From the rebuke of Thy face they perish. 17 Let Thy hand be on the man of Thy right hand, On the son of man Thou hast strengthened for Thyself. 18 And we do not go back from Thee, Thou dost revive us, and in Thy name we call. 19 O Jehovah, God of Hosts, turn us back, Cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved!
Psalms · Young's Literal Translation
Psalm 80 Young's Literal Translation
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- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
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)