“ Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. ”
Turn us again - This phrase in our translation would seem to mean, “Turn us again from our sins,” or, “Bring us back to our duty, and to thy love;” and this idea is commonly attached to the phras...
(c) Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. (c) Join your whole people, and all your tribes together again.
LXXX. Then and Now. The Messianic Hope. The Ps. depicts Judah's forlorn condition, first directly ( Psalms 80:1-7 ) and then under the figure of a vine ( Psalms 80:8-19 ). It is divided into stroph...
Turn us again. Figure of speech Cycloides (App-6) governing the Structure. Compare verses: Psalms 80:7 ; Psalms 80:19 . Not from captivity, but from idolatry to the true worship. God. Hebrew...
3 Turn us again, O God! The meaning of this prayer is, Restore us to our former state. They had petitioned, in the preceding verse, that God would stir up his strength in the sight of Ephrai...
Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. Turn us again - השיבנו hashibenu, convert or restore us. There are four parts in this Psalm, three of which end with the abov...
Turn us again, O God— There are evidently four parts in this psalm; all of which conclude with this verse, or with one varying very little from it. In the first, the Psalmist intreats God to as...
Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. Turn us again ie reverse our captivity ( Psalms 126:1 ; Psalms 126:4 ) Bring us back from exile This is especially t...
This Ps. is an appeal to God to save His people from the adversities that have come upon them, and have made them the laughing stock of their enemies ( Psalms 80:1-7 ). Their past history is recalled...
Turn us again — i.e. , “restore us,” not necessarily with reference to the Captivity, but generally, restore us to our pristine prosperity. Cause thy face to shine. — The desert encampment an...
Psalms 80:1-19 THIS psalm is a monument of some time of great national calamity; but its allusions do not enable us to reach certainty as to what that calamity was. Two striking features of it hav...
“Turn Us Again, O God” Psalms 80:1-7 The ten tribes were in captivity, and the hearts of their brethren, still living at Jerusalem under the reign of David's line, seem to have turned with grea...
Again we have a song out of the midst of distress. There is far more light and colour about it than in the previous one. The circumstances do not seem to be any more favourable than those described b...
These tribes, Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, are probably put for all Israel. As if the church begged that Christ's favor to his people should be as conspicuous, as the pillar of cloud had been in...
Turn us again, O God ,.... From our captivity, as the Targum, into our own land; or return us backsliding sinners to thyself by repentance; turn us, and we shall be turned; for the prayer shows it w...
Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. Ver. 3. Turn us again ] Turn again our captivity, or show thyself reconciled unto us in Christ, who is here called the fac...
Turn us again He means, either to our former quiet and flourishing state; or, to thyself, from whom Ephraim and Manasseh, with the rest of the ten tribes, have apostatized. See a similar prayer of...
Mournful Complaints. To the chief musician upon Shoshannim, Eduth. A psalm of Asaph. 1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israe...
Turn us again; either, l. To our former quiet and flourishing estate; or, 2. To thyself, from whom Ephraim and Manasseh with the rest of the ten tribes have apostatized. See the like prayer of El...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim-Eduth .” On “ Shoshannim ” see Introduction to Psalms 45 . Probably “Shoshannim—Eduth” denotes “the melody or air ‘after’ or ‘...
Psalms 80:1-3 . Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth. Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy st...
Though we know not the occasion on which this song was composed, yet as the tribes still inhabited the land, it probably was written on the same occasion as the preseding, and prays for the same salv...
Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock. The Almighty in relation to erring man I. As a shepherd ( Psalms 80:1 ). 1. His flock indicated. “Joseph” may stand for...
EXPOSITION A PSALM in which the writer entreats God to restore his favour once more to Israel, and especially to the ten tribes, who are in affliction, and in danger of perishing ( Psalms 80:1...
Prayer for the Deliverance of the Church. To the chief musician upon Shoshannim-Eduth, to be rendered in public worship according to the melody "Lilies a Testimony," a psalm of Asaph, the hymn ref...
1 Kings 18:37 ; Jeremiah 31:18 ; Jeremiah 31:19 ; Lamentations 5:21 ; Numbers 6:25 ; Numbers 6:26 ; Psalms 119:135 ; Psalms 4:6 ; Psalms 67:1 ; Psalms 80:1 ; Psalms 80:19 ; Psalms 80:7 ;...
Turn us — To thy self.