Bible Strands
Psalms 80:7
Restore us, O God of Hosts, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist speaks corporately on behalf of Israel to God amid national disgrace and enemy mockery. The prayer occurs between a statement of current divine judgment and a recollection of God’s past transplantation of the nation.
The words — הֲשִׁיבֵ֑/נוּ (ha.shi.Ve./nu) literally means “restore us,” and פָּ֝נֶ֗י/ךָ (pa.Nei./kha) means “your face,” directly linked to וְ/נִוָּשֵֽׁעָה (ve./ni.va.She.'ah) to state “that we may be saved.”
The thread — The identical plea reappears in Psalms 80:19, while Isaiah 64:5 echoes the tension between divine anger and the question of salvation. Psalms 51:10 parallels the request for internal restoration with a call for a renewed spirit.
Why it lands — The text demands a direct appeal for divine intervention as the sole condition for deliverance. It requires the reader to acknowledge that restoration and salvation depend entirely on God’s favorable presence rather than human effort.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Cross-references
- Psalms 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
- Psalms 80:19 Restore us, O LORD God of Hosts; cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
- Isaiah 64:5 You welcome those who gladly do right, who remember Your ways. Surely You were angry, for we sinned. How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?
- Jeremiah 4:14 Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
- Psalms 80:3 Restore us, O God, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
- Isaiah 30:15 For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: “By repentance and rest you would be saved; your strength would lie in quiet confidence—but you were not willing.”
- Mark 4:12 so that, ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven.’”
- 2 Timothy 2:25 He must gently reprove those who oppose him, in the hope that God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth.
- Luke 1:16 Many of the sons of Israel he will turn back to the Lord their God.