Psalm 80

Dear Jennie:

My notes say Shoshannim means lilies and probably indicates a wedding tune. But this Psalm doesn't really seem like something you'd put to a wedding tune. My notes also say the setting of this Psalm is the northern tribes being taken captive by Assyria. So the choir of Asaph in Jerusalem cry out to God.

- vs. 1-3: Asking God to: listen, lead, stir up his power, save them, restore them, cause his face to shine upon them.

-vs. 5: The people eat and drink tears (as opposed to the mana from heaven when they were saved out of Egypt)

- vs. 8-11: God removed his people from Egypt and caused them to grow all over the promised land.

- vs. 15: The Lord himself planted his people

- vs. 17: My notes say "son of man" here refers to Israel.

- vs. 19: Must be the chorus as we've heard this repeated several times now. We know that Judah didn't go into captivity by the Babylonians until sometime after the northern tribes where taken captive. But eventually Judah was punished too, for the wicked ways of its king and the people following right along.

Love!