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Psalm chapter 80, verse 19, restore us, O Lord God of hosts.

Let your face shine that we may be saved.

Now this verse is repeated multiple times in Psalm chapter 80.

Verse 3 says, Restore us, O God, let your face shine that we may be saved.

Verse 7, restore us, O God of hosts, let your face shine that we may be saved. Verse 14, not the exact same language, but very similar. Turn again,

O God of hosts. Look down from heaven and see. And then what I read at the beginning, the last

verse in the Psalm, restore us, O Lord God of hosts, let your face shine that we may be saved. And in that

repetition, obviously, whenever we are reading through scripture and we see a phrase or a word

or verse even like we see here repeated multiple times, we're getting a pretty clear clue from the

Holy Spirit as to the theme of this chapter of what God is saying in His Word at this point

and the takeaway that we need in our lives from it.

And the whole picture here in Psalm chapter 80 is a picture of our

need for God's face to shine upon us. Just think about that imagery in this Psalm, for the face

to shine upon us. What does that mean?

Well, obviously, based on the context of this passage, the fact that it says,

let your face shine that we may be saved, that we may be saved, let your face shine, that we may be saved.

It's a picture of God saving his people, of God

providing for his people, of God delivering his people, of God leading his people, of God

helping his people. And all of these things are a picture of God's face shining upon his people.

And the thought, when you see, O Lord, God of hosts in Psalm 80,

verse 19, the thought of the Lord, Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God who created everything in the world,

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