Psalms 80:1

Listen, Shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock of sheep; from your throne on the cherubs shine forth

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Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.

In Context

2before Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin. Stir up your mighty power, come to our help.

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Cross References

Psalms 23:1The Lord is my shepherd: I am never in need.

Psalms 50:1The Lord God has spoken: He summons the earth from sunrise to sunset.

Psalms 55:1Listen, God, to my prayer. Don’t hide yourself from my pleading.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 80:1

This psalm is much to the same purport with the foregoing. Some think it was penned upon occasion of the desolation and captivity of the ten tribes, as the foregoing psalm of the two. But many were the distresses of the Israel of God, many perhaps which are not recorded in the sacred history some whereof might give occasion for the drawing up of this psalm, which is proper to be sung in the day of Jacob's trouble, and if, in singing it, we express a true love to the church and a hearty concern for its interest,… Read the whole commentary →

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