God’s Word Translation
Psalms 80:4
4O Lord God, commander of armies, how long will you smolder in anger against the prayer 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
2Appear in front of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Wake up your power, and come to save us. 3O God, restore us and smile on us so that we may be saved. O Lord God, commander of armies, how long will you smolder in anger against the prayer of your people? 5You made them eat tears as food. You often made them drink ⌞their own⌟ tears. 6You made us a source of conflict to our neighbors, and our enemies made fun of us.
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 ever let go of your anger in the generations to come?
- Isaiah 58:2They look for me every day and want to know my ways. They act as if they were a nation that has done what is right and as if they haven’t disregarded God’s judgment ⌞on them⌟. They ask me for just decrees. They want God to be near them.
- Lamentations 3:44You covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer could get through it.
- Matthew 15:22A Canaanite woman from that territory came ⌞to him⌟ and began to shout, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is tormented by a demon.”
- Luke 18:1Jesus used this illustration with his disciples to show them that they need to pray all the time and never give up.
- Psalms 74:1Why, O God, have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep in your care?
- Deuteronomy 29:20The Lord will never be willing to forgive that person, because the Lord’s burning anger will smolder against him. All the curses described in this book will happen to him. The Lord will erase ⌞every memory of⌟ that person’s name from the earth.
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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