--- title: "Psalms 80 - Study King James Bible with barnes notes on the whole bible" description: "Read Psalms 80 with barnes notes on the whole bible commentary. 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 Benja" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/barnes-notes-on-the-whole-bible/psalms/80" --- [ Read](/kjv/psalms/80)[ Commentary](/study/psalms/80)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/psalms/80) Audio 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 unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves. 7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. 8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. 9 Thou preparedst *room* before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. 10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof *were like* the goodly cedars.* 11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river. 12 Why hast thou *then* broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? 13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. 14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; 15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch *that* thou madest strong for thyself. 16 *It is* burned with fire, *it is* cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. 17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man *whom* thou madest strong for thyself. 18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name. 19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. [Psalms 79](/study/psalms/79) [Psalms 81](/study/psalms/81) ## Commentary To verse 1 **Give ear -**Incline the ear; as if the ear of God was then turned away, or as if he was inattentive to what was occurring. See the notes at [Psalms 5:1](/kjv/psalms/5/1). O Shepherd of Israel. See the notes at [Psalms 23:1](/kjv/psalms/23/1). **Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock -**Joseph, the father of Ephraim and Manasseh. See the notes at [Psalms 78:67](/kjv/psalms/78/67). The name Joseph seems here to be used poetically to represent the whole people of Israel, as he was a man so prominent in their history, and especially as Egypt is mentioned as the country from which the vine had been transplanted - a country where Joseph had acted so important a part, and in connection with which his name would be so naturally associated. The meaning is, that God had led the tribes of the Hebrew people as a shepherd leads or conducts his flock. **Thou that dwellest between the cherubims -**See the notes at [Psalms 18:10](/kjv/psalms/18/10). The allusion here is to God as dwelling, by a visible symbol - the Shechinah - on the mercy-seat, between the cherubims. [Exodus 25:18](/kjv/exodus/25/18), [Exodus 25:22](/kjv/exodus/25/22); [Exodus 37:7](/kjv/exodus/37/7); [1Sa 4:4](/kjv/1sa/4/4); [1 Kings 6:25](/kjv/1-kings/6/25). See the notes at [Isaiah 37:16](/kjv/isaiah/37/16); and notes at [Hebrews 9:5](/kjv/hebrews/9/5). “Shine, forth.” Manifest thyself. 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