Psalms 80:3
Take up a psalm, and bring forth the timbrel: a pleasing Psalter with stringed instruments.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
In Context
2Exult before God our helper. Sing joyfully to the God of Jacob.
4Sound the trumpet at the new moon, on the noteworthy day of your solemnity,
Cross References
Numbers 6:25May the Lord reveal his face to you and take pity on you.
Psalms 4:6Offer the sacrifice of justice, and hope in the Lord. Many say, “Who reveals to us what is good?”
Psalms 67:1Unto the end. A Canticle Psalm of David himself.
Psalms 80:7He turned the burdens away from his back. His hands had been a slave to baskets.
Psalms 85:4Give joy to the soul of your servant, for I have lifted up my soul to you, Lord.
Jeremiah 31:18Listening, I heard Ephraim going into captivity: ‘You have chastised me, and I was instructed, like a young untamed bull. Convert me, and I shall be converted. For you are the Lord my God.
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 →