Psalms 80:2
Before Ephraim, and Benjamin, and Manasseh, || Wake up Your might, and come for our salvation.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.
In Context
3O God, cause us to turn back, || And cause Your face to shine, and we are saved.
Cross References
Exodus 25:22and I have met with you there, and have spoken with you from off the propitiatory covering (from between the two cherubim, which [are] on the Ark of the Testimony) all that which I command you concerning the sons of Israel.
Numbers 10:22And the standard of the camp of the sons of Ephraim has journeyed, by their hosts, and over its host [is] Elishama son of Ammihud.
1 Kings 8:6And the priests bring in the Ark of the Covenant of YHWH to its place, to the oracle of the house, to the Holy of Holies, to the place of the wings of the cherubim;
Psalms 35:23Stir up, and wake to my judgment, || My God, and my Lord, to my plea.
Psalms 50:2From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shone.
Psalms 99:1YHWH has reigned, peoples tremble, || The Inhabitant of the cherubim, the earth shakes.
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 →