King of Guilt :: Psalm 80
Psalm 80 Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth. Restore us, O Lord God of hosts! Let your face shine, that we may be saved. 2. It’s a prayer. It’s a prayer of God’s people. They’ve fallen out of favor. They’ve messed up, they screwed up, and they know it. They got caught up in worldliness and false gods. They became careless with God’s Word. They shunned God’s sacraments, his gifts of forgiveness. Their enemies have beaten them. Psalm 80 is the prayer of refugees, God’s people of the Northern Kingdom who fled to Jerusalem in the south when the Assyrian army took over in the north. Their homes? Gone. Their places of worship? Gone. Their government? Gone. Everything they stored up for themselves. Gone. All the things they’d put their trust in ... every last false thing that had distracted them from their heavenly ...