Psalms Chapter 80 verse 2 Holy Bible
Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy might, And come to save us.
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Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, let your strength be awake from sleep, and come as our salvation.
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Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy strength, and come to our deliverance.
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Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.
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To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim Eduth, A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubim, shine forth.
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Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us!
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Before Ephraim, and Benjamin, and Manasseh, Wake up Thy might, and come for our salvation.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh. "Ephraim" and "Manasseh" form a natural expansion of the "Joseph" of the preceding verse; but it is difficult to understand the mention of "Benjamin" here. Hengstenberg suggests, and both Canon Cook and Professor Cheyne seem to accept the suggestion, that it was only a small portion of Benjamin which adhered to Judah at the division of the kingdoms, the greater part attaching itself to the rival power. Stir up thy strength; i.e. "rouse thyself from thine inaction - come forward, and make thy might to appear." And come and save us; literally, come for salvation to us. The writer identifies himself with the rebel tribes, who, after all, are a part of God's people - a part of Israel.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) Before Ephraim . . .--The tribes named from Joseph's sons and his uterine brother naturally range together; they encamped side by side on the west of the Tabernacle, and when the ark moved forward they took their places immediately behind it to head the procession. The preposition "before" would alone show that this ancient arrangement, and no recent political event, determines the manner in which the poet introduces the tribes. It is used of a funeral procession (2Samuel 3:31; Job 21:33).
