Psalms 80:2
Exult before God our helper. Sing joyfully to the God of Jacob.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.
In Context
1Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm of Asaph himself.
3Take up a psalm, and bring forth the timbrel: a pleasing Psalter with stringed instruments.
Cross References
Exodus 25:22From there, I will warn you and speak to you, above the propitiatory and from the middle of the two Cherubim, which will be over the ark of the testimony, about everything that I will command of the sons of Israel through you.
Numbers 10:22The sons of Ephraim also moved their camp by their companies, and the leader of their army was Elishama the son of Ammihud.
1 Kings 8:6And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, into the oracle of the temple, in the Holy of Holies, under the wings of the cherubim.
Psalms 50:2when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he went to Bathsheba.
Psalms 99:1A Psalm of Confession.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 80:2-8
Mournful Complaints. 1 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… Read the whole commentary →