--- title: "Psalms 80 - Study King James Bible with pooles english annotations on the holy bible" description: "Read Psalms 80 with pooles english annotations on the holy 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/pooles-english-annotations-on-the-holy-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 **Shoshannim-Eduth** seems to be the name of a musical instrument; though many separate the latter part of the word from the former, and expound Eduth, a testimony, or witness between God and his people, of his relation to them, and of their dependence upon him. The psalmist bemoaneth the miseries and sad condition of the church, [Psalms 80:1-7](/kjv/psalms/80/1-7); that God’s past manifold mercies are changed into desolating judgments, [Psalms 80:8-13](/kjv/psalms/80/8-13). He prayeth for deliverance out of them, with a promise of that fulness, [Psalms 80:14-19](/kjv/psalms/80/14-19). **O Shepherd of Israel**; thou who hast undertaken to feed and govern thy people of Israel, as a shepherd doth his flock, now perform thine office, and rescue thy flock from those grievous wolves which devour and destroy them. **That leadest;** or didst lead formerly, though now thou hast forsaken them. **Joseph,** i.e. the children of Joseph, or of Israel, as he now said, this clause being but a repetition, the former in other words. Compare [Psalms 77:15](/kjv/psalms/77/15). And the name of Joseph, the most eminent of the patriarchs both for his dignity and piety, and the right of primogeniture transferred upon him from Reuben, [1 Chronicles 5:1](/kjv/1-chronicles/5/1), is elsewhere put for all the ten tribes, as [Ezekiel 37:6](/kjv/ezekiel/37/6),[Ezekiel 37:19](/kjv/ezekiel/37/19) [Amos 5:6](/kjv/amos/5/6),[Amos 5:15](/kjv/amos/5/15); [Amos 6:6](/kjv/amos/6/6); [Zechariah 10:6](/kjv/zechariah/10/6); and for all the tribes, as [Psalms 81:5](/kjv/psalms/81/5); [Obadiah 1:18](/kjv/obadiah/1/18). **Between the cherubims;** which were the mercy-seat above the ark; by which title he prudently and piously minds the ten tribes of their revolt from God, and of the vanity of their superstitious addresses to their calves at Dan and Beth-el, and of the necessity of their returning to the true worship of God before the ark at Jerusalem, if they desired or expected any relief from him. And by this title it seems more than probable that this Psalm was not made upon occasion of the Babylonish captivity, in and after which time there was no ark nor cherubims, nor do I remember that Daniel or any prophets did then apply themselves to God by that title. See [Daniel 9:0](/kjv/daniel/9/0). Shine forth out of the clouds, wherein thou seemest to hide thyself. 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