Psalm 80-83
1599 Geneva Bible
80 1 A lamentable prayer to God to help the miseries of his Church, 8 Desiring him to consider their first estate, when his favor shined toward them, to the intent that he might finish that work which he had begun.
To him that excelleth on Shoshannim Eduth, A Psalm committed to Asaph.
1 Hear, [a]O thou shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like sheep: show thy brightness, thou that sittest between the [b]Cherubims.
2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come to help us.
3 [c]Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine that we may be saved.
4 O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be [d]angry against the prayer of thy people?
5 Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink with great measure.
6 Thou hast made us a [e]strife unto our neighbors, and our enemies laugh at us among themselves.
7 [f]Turn us again, O God of hosts: cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
8 Thou hast brought a [g]vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
9 Thou madest room for it, and didst cause it to take root, and it filled the land.
10 The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the [h]goodly cedars.
11 She stretched out her branches unto the Sea, and her boughs unto the [i]river.
12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they, which pass by the way, have plucked her?
13 The wild [j]boar out of the wood hath destroyed it, and the wild beasts of the field have eaten it up.
14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down [k]from heaven and behold, and visit this vine,
15 And the vineyard, that thy right hand hath planted, and the young vine, which thou madest [l]strong for thyself.
16 It is burnt with fire, and cut down: and they perish at the [m]rebuke of thy countenance.
17 Let thine hand be upon the [n]man of thy right hand, and upon the son of man, whom thou madest strong for thine own self.
18 So will not we go back from thee, [o]revive thou us, and we shall call upon thy Name.
19 Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts: cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
81 1 An exhortation to praise God both in heart and voice for his benefits, 8 and to worship him only. 11 God condemneth their ingratitude, 12 and showeth what great benefit they have lost through their own malice.
To him that excelleth upon [p]Gittith. A Psalm committeth to Asaph.
1 Sing [q]joyfully unto God our strength: sing loud unto the God of Jacob.
2 Take the song and bring forth the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the viol.
3 Blow the trumpet in the [r]new moon, even in the time appointed at our feast day.
4 For this is a statute for Israel, and a Law of the God of Jacob.
5 He set this in [s]Joseph for a testimony, when he came out of the land of Egypt, where I heard a language, that [t]I understood not.
6 I have withdrawn his shoulder from the burden, and his hands have left the [u]pots.
7 Thou calledst in affliction, and I delivered thee, and [v]answered thee in the secret of the thunder: I proved thee at the waters of [w]Meribah. Selah.
8 [x]Hear, O my people, and I will protest unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me,
9 And wilt have no strange god in thee, neither worship any strange god,
10 (For I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt:) [y]open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 But my people would not hear my voice, and Israel would none of me,
12 So I gave them up unto the hardness of their heart, and they have walked in their own counsels.
13 [z]Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
14 I would soon have humbled their enemies, and turned mine hand [aa]against their adversaries.
15 The haters of the Lord should have been subject unto him, and their time [ab]should have endured forever.
16 And God would have fed them with the [ac]fat of wheat, and with honey out of the rock would I have sufficed thee.
82 1 The Prophet declaring God to be present among the Judges and Magistrates, 2 Reproveth their partiality. 3 And exhorteth them to do justice. 5 But seeing none amendment, 8 He desireth God to undertake the matter and execute justice himself.
A Psalm committeth to Aspah.
1 God standeth in the assembly of [ad]gods: he judgeth among gods.
2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the [ae]wicked? Selah.
3 Do right to the poor and fatherless: do justice to the poor and needy.
4 Deliver the poor and [af]needy: save them from the hand of the wicked.
5 They know not and understand nothing: they walk in darkness, albeit all the [ag]foundations of the earth be moved.
6 I have said, Ye are gods, and ye all are children of the most High.
7 [ah]But ye shall die as a man, and ye princes shall fall like others.
8 O God, arise, therefore judge thou the earth: for thou shalt inherit [ai]all nations.
83 1 The people of Israel pray unto the Lord to deliver them from their enemies both at home and far off, which imagined nothing but their destruction. 9 And they desire that all such wicked people may according as God was accustomed, be stricken with the stormy tempest of God’s wrath, 18 That they may know that the Lord is most high upon the earth.
A song or Psalm committed to Asaph.
1 Keep [aj]not thou silence, O God: be not still, and cease not, O God.
2 For lo, thine [ak]enemies make a tumult, and they that hate thee, have lifted up the head.
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and have consulted against thy [al]secret ones.
4 They have said, Come and let us [am]cut them off from being a nation: and let the name of Israel be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together in [an]heart, and have made a league [ao]against thee:
6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagarites:
7 Gebal and Ammon, and Amalek, the Philistines, with the inhabitants of [ap]Tyre.
8 Assyria also is joined with them: they have been an arm to the children [aq]of Lot. Selah.
9 Do thou to them as unto the [ar]Midianites: as to Sisera and as to Jabin at the river of Kishon.
10 They perished at En Dor, and were [as]dung for the earth.
11 Make them, even their princes, like (A)Oreb and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes like Zebah and like Zalmunna,
12 Which have said, Let us take for our possession the [at]habitations of God.
13 O my God, make them like unto a [au]wheel, and as the stubble before the wind.
14 As the fire burneth the forest, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire:
15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
16 Fill their faces with shame, that they may [av]seek thy Name, O Lord.
17 Let them be confounded and troubled forever: yea, let them be put to shame, and perish,
18 That they may [aw]know that thou, which art calleth Jehovah, art alone, even the most High over all the earth.
Footnotes
- Psalm 80:1 This Psalm was made as a prayer for to desire God to be merciful to the ten tribes.
- Psalm 80:1 Move their hearts, that they may return to worship God aright: that is, in the place where thou hast appointed.
- Psalm 80:3 Join thy whole people, and all thy tribes together again.
- Psalm 80:4 The faithful fear God’s anger, when they perceive that their prayers are not forthwith heard.
- Psalm 80:6 Our neighbors have continual strife and war against us.
- Psalm 80:7 Because that repentance only cometh of God, they most instantly and ofttimes call to God for it as a means whereby they shall be saved.
- Psalm 80:8 Seeing that of thy mercy thou hast made us a most dear possession to thee, and we through our sins are made open for wild beasts to devour us, declare again thy love, and finish the work that thou hast begun.
- Psalm 80:10 Hebrew, cedars of God.
- Psalm 80:11 To wit, Euphrates.
- Psalm 80:13 That is, as well they that hate our religion, as they that hate our persons.
- Psalm 80:14 They gave not place to tentation, knowing that albeit there were no help in earth, yet God was able to succor them from heaven.
- Psalm 80:15 So that no power can prevail against it, and which as a young bud thou raisest up again as out of the burnt ashes.
- Psalm 80:16 Only when thou art angry and not of the sword of the enemy.
- Psalm 80:17 That is, upon this vine or people, whom thou hast planted with thy right hand, that they should be as one man or one body
- Psalm 80:18 For none can call upon God but such as are raised up as it were from death to life, and regenerate by the holy Spirit.
- Psalm 81:1 An instrument of music brought from Geth.
- Psalm 81:1 It seemeth that this Psalm was appointed for solemn feasts and assemblies of the people to whom for a time these ceremonies were ordained, but now under the Gospel are abolished.
- Psalm 81:3 Under this feast he comprehendeth all other solemn days.
- Psalm 81:5 That is, in Israel: for Joseph’s family was counted the chief before that Judah was preferred.
- Psalm 81:5 God speaketh in the person of the people because he was their leader.
- Psalm 81:6 If they were never able to give sufficient thanks to God for this deliverance from corporal bondage, how much more are we indebted to him for our spiritual deliverance from the tyranny of Satan and sin?
- Psalm 81:7 By a strange and wonderful fashion.
- Psalm 81:7 Or, contention, Exod. 17:7.
- Psalm 81:8 He condemneth all assemblies, where the people are not attentive to hear God’s voice, and to give obedience to the same.
- Psalm 81:10 God accuseth their incredulity, because they opened not their mouths to receive God’s benefits in such abundance as he poureth them out.
- Psalm 81:13 God by his word calleth all, but his secret election appointeth who shall hear with fruit.
- Psalm 81:14 If their sins had not letted.
- Psalm 81:15 If the Israelites had not broken covenant with God, he would have given them victory against their enemies.
- Psalm 81:16 That is, with most fine wheat and abundance of honey.
- Psalm 82:1 The Prophet showeth that if princes and judges do not their duty, God whose authority is above them, will take vengeance on them.
- Psalm 82:2 For thieves and murderers find favor in judgment, when the cause of the godly cannot be heard.
- Psalm 82:4 Not only when they cry for help, but when their cause requireth aid and support.
- Psalm 82:5 That is, all things are out of order either by their tyranny or careless negligence.
- Psalm 82:7 No title of honor shall excuse you, but you shall be subject to God’s judgment, and render account as well as other men.
- Psalm 82:8 Therefore no tyrant shall pluck thy right and authority from thee.
- Psalm 83:1 This Psalm seemeth to have been composed as a form of prayer against the dangers that the Church was in, in the days of Jehoshaphat.
- Psalm 83:2 He calleth them God’s enemies, which are enemies to his Church.
- Psalm 83:3 The elect of God are his secret ones: for he hideth them in the secret of his tabernacle, and preserveth them from all dangers.
- Psalm 83:4 They were not content to take the Church as prisoner: but sought utterly to destroy it.
- Psalm 83:5 By all secret means.
- Psalm 83:5 They thought to have subverted thy counsel wherein the perpetuity of the Church was established.
- Psalm 83:7 Or, Zor.
- Psalm 83:8 The wickedness of the Ammonites and Moabites is described in that they provoked these other nations to fight against the Israelites their brethren.
- Psalm 83:9 By these examples they were confirmed, that God would not suffer his people to be utterly destroyed, Judg. 7:21 and 4:15.
- Psalm 83:10 Trodden under feet as mire.
- Psalm 83:12 That is, Judea: for where his Church is, there dwelleth he among them.
- Psalm 83:13 Because the reprobate could by no means be amended, he prayeth that they may utterly be destroyed, be unstable, and led with all winds.
- Psalm 83:16 That is, be compelled by thy plagues to confess thy power.
- Psalm 83:18 Though they believe not, yet they may prove by experience, that it is in vain to resist against thy counsel in establishing thy Church.
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