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Psalms 80:17

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Psalms 80:17

Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.

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Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?

The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.

Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,

the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself.

It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.

So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.

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

The fulfillment reading

How this passage is read as pointing to the Messiah.

The fulfillment reading treats Psalm 80:17 as pointing to Christ, noting that the verse pairs the man of God's right hand with the son of man whom God made strong for himself. Proponents connect this convergence of 'right hand' and 'son of man' to Jesus' statement at his trial in Mark 14:62 that he would sit at the right hand of Power, reading his self-designation as the Son of Man as a conscious identification with the psalm's figure. On this view the psalm's petition for the strengthened right-hand figure is answered in the exalted Christ. The dual motif is taken as a genuine titular and thematic link rather than coincidence.

The counter-reading

How this passage is read within its own context.

The critical reading places Psalm 80:17 within a communal lament pleading for national restoration in a time of crisis, using vine imagery for Israel. The 'one at your right hand' is variously identified with the king, the tribe of Benjamin, or Israel personified, and the phrase 'son of man' (ben-adam) is a standard Hebrew idiom for a human being used throughout the Hebrew Bible. On this view the psalm is a prayer asking God to protect an existing leader, whereas Mark 14:62 is a claim to a future position of cosmic authority. Critics see two different speech acts attached to differing referents, joined chiefly by shared vocabulary that carries non-messianic meaning in its original setting.

How the New Testament uses this passage

Each entry names how the New Testament author draws on the passage — a direct quotation, an allusion, an echo, or a typological reading. An echo or an allusion is not the same as a prediction; the label says which is which.

  • Mark 14:61-62 Echo

    Mark 14:62 quotes Psalm 110:1 and Daniel 7:13, not Psalm 80; only a faint shared 'son of man'/'right hand' vocabulary links the two.