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Psalms 80:4
4O Lord God of hosts, How long will You be angry with the prayers of Your people?
Psalms 80:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
- New International Version (NIV)How long, Lord God Almighty, will your anger smolder against the prayers of your people?
- English Standard Version (ESV)O Lord God of hosts, how long will you be angry with your people's prayers?
- New King James Version (NKJV)O Lord God of hosts, How long will You be angry Against the prayer of Your people?
Context of Psalms 80:4
2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up Your power And come to save us! 3Restore us, O God; Cause Your face to shine on us [with favor and approval], and we will be saved. O Lord God of hosts, How long will You be angry with the prayers of Your people? 5You have fed them the bread of tears, And You have made them drink [bitter] tears in abundance. 6You make us an object of contention to our neighbors, And our enemies laugh [at our suffering] among themselves.
Read all of Psalms 80Psalms 80:4 word by word
יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהִ֣ים צְבָא֑וֹת עַד־מָתַ֥י עָ֝שַׁ֗נְתָּ בִּתְפִלַּ֥ת עַמֶּֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 80:4
- Psalms 85:5Will You be angry with us forever? Will You prolong Your anger to all generations?
- Isaiah 58:2Yet they seek Me day by day and delight [superficially] to know My ways, As [if they were in reality] a nation that has done righteousness And has not abandoned (turned away from) the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me righteous judgments, They delight in the nearness of God.
- Lamentations 3:44You have covered Yourself with a cloud So that no prayer can pass through.
- Matthew 15:22And a Canaanite woman from that district came out and began to cry out [urgently], saying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David (Messiah); my daughter is cruelly possessed by a demon.”
- Luke 18:1Now Jesus was telling the disciples a parable to make the point that at all times they ought to pray and not give up and lose heart,
- Psalms 74:1O God, why have You rejected us forever? Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?
- Deuteronomy 29:20the Lord will not be willing to forgive him, but then the anger of the Lord and His jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse which is written in this book will rest on him; the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven.
Commentaries on Psalms 80:4
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4O Lord God of hosts - Yahweh, God of armies. That is either (a) the God who rules among the hosts of heaven - the inhabitants of that holy world; or (b) God of the hosts of the sky - the worlds above - the stars, that seem marshalled as hosts or armies, and that are led forth each night with such order and grandeur; or (c) God of the hosts on earth - the armies that are mustered for war. The phrase is one which is often applied to God. See the notes at…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-7The people cry out for rescue from the shame of their recent defeat. The enemy’s victory is less devastating, however, than the knowledge that they themselves are objects of God’s wrath.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. be angry--(Compare Margin.)Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 80
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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