Psalms 80:3

3. Turn us again Bring us back, or, cause us to return. Here, again, is the office of the “Shepherd of Israel.” In Psalms 80:1, he “ leads Joseph like a flock;” now he is called to bring back the strayed ones. Thus the same word Psalms 23:3, “He restoreth [ bringeth back ] my soul.” It was the first want of the nation, and the first specified act of that saving strength invoked in the previous verse. Unquestionably the word שׁוב , ( shoobh,) “turn,” is to be taken in the fullest sense of restoration, politically and spiritually. Nothing less than this would be equal to the national want or the impassioned language of the psalm. The word is often used spiritually in the sense of convert, as Psalms 19:7; Psalms 51:13; Isaiah 4:7; Ezekiel 18:21; Ezekiel 18:28; Malachi 2:6