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Psalm 80:7

Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

5You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
6You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.
7Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
8You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.
9You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.
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Notice

After tears and enemies’ laughter, the plea for God’s shining face expresses how much a battered people’s hope depends on his favor and power to save.

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Where else Scripture says this

12 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Numbers 6:25The LORD make his face to shine on you, and be gracious to you.Both texts seek God’s shining face, with Numbers asking for grace and the psalm asking for salvation.
Lamentations 5:21Turn us to yourself, LORD, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old.Both prayers ask God to turn his people again, placing their restoration in his hands.
Psalm 80:3Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.The same plea for restoration, God’s shining face, and salvation returns here with the added title “God of Armies.”
Psalm 90:17Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.Both prayers seek God’s favor upon a people, asking him for help they cannot secure themselves.
Psalm 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.Both prayers ask God to bring renewal, one for a people and the other for a person’s heart and spirit.
Psalm 4:6Many say, “Who will show us any good?” LORD, let the light of your face shine on us.Both prayers ask for God’s face to shine upon those who are seeking his help.
Jeremiah 4:14Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?Both speak of being saved; the psalm asks God to act, while Jeremiah commands Jerusalem to wash its heart from wickedness.
Isaiah 64:5You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long …Both speak of salvation in an address to God, though Isaiah names sin and asks whether the people will be saved.
Mark 4:12that ‘seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be …Both mention turning again; the psalm asks God for restoration and salvation, while Mark speaks of turning and forgiveness.
2 Timothy 2:25–26in gentleness correcting those who oppose him. Perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,Both locate needed change in God’s action: the psalm asks him to turn his people, and Timothy speaks of God granting repentance.
Isaiah 30:15For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You …Both link returning with being saved; Isaiah also names rest and confidence, then records the people’s refusal.
Jeremiah 31:18“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned, for you are the …Both ask God to turn those addressing him, with Ephraim’s personal plea echoing the psalm’s prayer for the people.
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Encouragement

The people ask for God’s shining face while their tears remain part of the story. Their plea rests on his power to restore them; their salvation depends on him.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).