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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 80 To the chief Musician upon Shoshannimeduth, A Psalm of Asaph. Of the word "shoshannim", [See comments on Psalms 45:1], and of "shushaneduth", [See comments on Psalms 60:1] which seems to be the same with this here, and is thought by some to be the name of a musical instrument now unknown, as Kimchi and Ben Melech; though these two words are not to be read together as...
John Gill
Turn us again, O God of hosts,.... The same with Psalms 80:3, only instead of God there, here it is "the God of hosts"; the repetition of these words shows what was uppermost on the minds of God's people; what they were longing for, and most desirous of, namely, the light of God's countenance.
Matthew Henry
This psalm is much to the same purport with the foregoing. Some think it was penned upon occasion of the desolation and captivity of the ten tribes, as the foregoing psalm of the two. But many were the distresses of the Israel of God, many perhaps which are not recorded in the sacred history some whereof might give occasion for the drawing up of this psalm, which is proper to be sung in the day...
Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure. Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves. Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. Israel was evidently in very deep distress, yet still...