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Psalms 80:4
4How long, Lord God Almighty, will your anger smolder against 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?
- 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?
- New Living Translation (NLT)O Lord God of Heaven’s Armies, how long will you be angry with our prayers?
Context of Psalms 80:4
2before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh. Awaken your might; come and save us. 3Restore us, O God; make your face shine on us, that we may be saved. How long, Lord God Almighty, will your anger smolder against the prayers of your people? 5You have fed them with the bread of tears; you have made them drink tears by the bowlful. 6You have made us an object of derision to our neighbors, and our enemies mock us.
Read all of Psalms 80Psalms 80:4 word by word
יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהִ֣ים צְבָא֑וֹת עַד־מָתַ֥י עָ֝שַׁ֗נְתָּ בִּתְפִלַּ֥ת עַמֶּֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 80:4
- Psalms 85:5Will you be angry with us forever? Will you prolong your anger through all generations?
- Isaiah 58:2For day after day they seek me out; they seem eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that does what is right and has not forsaken the commands of its God. They ask me for just decisions and seem eager for God to come near them.
- Lamentations 3:44You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.
- Matthew 15:22A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.”
- Luke 18:1Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.
- Psalms 74:1O God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
- Deuteronomy 29:20The Lord will never be willing to forgive them; his wrath and zeal will burn against them. All the curses written in this book will fall on them, and the Lord will blot out their names 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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