Psalms 80:1
Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.
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In Context
2Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us!
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:2He said, “The LORD came from Sinai, and rose from Seir to them. He shone from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.
2 Samuel 6:2David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Baale Judah, to bring up from there God’s ark, which is called by the Name, even the name of the LORD of Armies who sits above the cherubim.
Job 10:3Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?
Psalms 23:1The LORD is my shepherd; I shall lack nothing.
Psalms 50:1The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
Psalms 55:1Listen to my prayer, God. Don’t hide yourself from my supplication.
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 →