Read: Psalm 80 vs 1-19
There’s a lovely tender tone to the opening words of Psalm 80:
‘Hear us, Shepherd of Israel,
You who lead Joseph like a flock.’
Asaph, who is writing this Psalm, knows that God is enthroned between the cherubim (vs 1) and with almost naïve trust he asks that God would shine His face upon him and upon His people. Like so many of the Psalms these are not words about God, these are words to God:
‘Restore us, O God;
