Psalms 80:7

He turned the burdens away from his back. His hands had been a slave to baskets.

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

In Context

6He set it as a testimony with Joseph, when he went out of the land of Egypt. He heard a tongue that he did not know.

8You called upon me in tribulation, and I freed you. I heard you within the hidden tempest. I tested you with waters of contradiction.

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Cross References

Nehemiah 2:19But Sanballat, a Horonite, and the servant Tobiah, an Ammonite, and Geshem, an Arab, heard of it. And they ridiculed and disparaged us, and they said: “What is this thing that you are doing? Could you be rebelling against the king?”

Psalms 80:3Take up a psalm, and bring forth the timbrel: a pleasing Psalter with stringed instruments.

Isaiah 30:15For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: If you return and are quiet, you shall be saved. Your strength will be found in silence and in hope. But you are not willing!

Jeremiah 4:14Wash your heart from malice, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will harmful thoughts abide in you?

Luke 1:16And he will convert many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their 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 →

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