“Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.”
The refrain concludes the psalm: "Restore us, O LORD God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved!" The final reiteration of this prayer emphasizes its thematic importance and suggests a cyclical structure where the refrain frames the accumulated petitions and historical recollections.
Church Fathers on Psalms 80:19
1. ...If perchance things obscure demand the office of an interpreter, those things which are evident ought to require of me the office of a reader. The song here is of the Advent of the Lord and of our Saviour Jesus Christ, and of His vineyard. But the singer of the song is that Asaph, as far as does appear, enlightened and converted, by whose name ye know the synagogue to be signified. Lastly, the title of the Psalm is: “For the end in behalf of them that shall be changed;”…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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