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Psalms 80:1-19

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

EXPOSITION

A PSALM in which the writer entreats God to restore his favour once more to Israel, and especially to the ten tribes, who are in affliction, and in danger of perishing (Psalms 80:1, Psalms 80:2, Psalms 80:15-17). The psalm is evidently written while the temple is standing (Psalms 80:1), and while Israel still occupies the Holy Land (Psalms 80:8-15), but in a time of deep suffering, when the nation has sustained a severe blow. It probably belongs to the period immediately preceding the final captivity of the ten tribes, when the kingdom of Israel was already tottering to its fall, and the carrying off of the population had begun (2 Kings 15:29). The psalm is "Asaphian," i.e. composed by a member of the Asaphian division of the temple choir, but certainly not by Asaph. It consists of two short strophes (Psalms 80:1-3, Psalms 80:4-7) and one long one (Psalms 80:8-19), each concluded with an almost identical refrain (Psalms 80:3, Psalms 80:7, Psalms 80:19).

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