^{Ps 80 17} Let your hand rest on the man at your right hand,
the son of man you have raised up for yourself."

This Psalm is teaching that a nation will be restored when God as the judge brings together His blessing with His cursing. This is why the Psalmist calls upon the Lord God Almighty ..or the Lord of host. The Psalmist is pleading with the God who is the Most High seated above the cherubim.  The cherubim are carrying out Gods judgement of the seals that are opened up against the idol worshipers that are in Israel. This prayer is a intercessory prayer of Gods elect on behalf of a rebellious nation. The only hope of restoration is when God judges the idol worshipers and blesses His elect. This ultimate judgement of nations was displayed by the Man at the right hand of the Most High.

This Psalm is a prayer that addresses the waywardness of a nation in two ways. When the nation is rebellious the Psalm is directed as a curse. Until the Most High responds to the prayers of the curses then there is no restoration. We must understand that all restoration is proceeded by a reviving of the people. This is why we should think seriously about a movement within a nation where many people are united in their desire. The national restoration follows the uncommon unity of the desires of the citizens. Our attitude about the change is seen in our spiritual awareness that God has done something in the people to restore the nation. This Psalm is a petition to restore the nation.

All Psalms are written to fight like physical war. Physical war is simply fighting in order to establish Gods law. When the enemy is silenced then the law will be upheld. So every man lives with the frustrations of the violations of the law in expressing them in blessing and cursing. All anger is a response to living in a world that is corrupted and lawless. Anger directed at self is a failure of Gods people to rise up to divine wrath by speaking the curses. Any attempt to create a balance between anger and love ..or any pragmatic view of the world is simply trying to play God. Its man trying to control his reaction in a way that is not orthodox or submissive to scripture. We seek to be revived by rising up to divine reactions to corruption and putting all of our hatred and anger in Gods hands. When we have emptied our human anger then we are filled with divine passion and reviving.

The Psalmist teaches us that the curses in the law are like ravaging wolves. When men turn to other gods the only hope is for the law to ravage them and silence them. But the blessing of the elect is like mammals under water. Gods law is holistic. God prevents us from moving away from its simplicity. Gods law constrains us and blesses us by protecting us from the complexity of the teaching of rebellion. At all times the saint petitions God , submitting to the rule of this Psalm in desiring correctly in both the negative pronouncing of judgement and positive pronouncement of the blessing. In this we glory in the Son at His right hand.