New Living Translation
Psalms 80:4
4O Lord God of Heaven’s Armies, how long will you be angry with our prayers?
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
2to Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Show us your mighty power. Come to rescue us! 3Turn us again to yourself, O God. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved. O Lord God of Heaven’s Armies, how long will you be angry with our prayers? 5You have fed us with sorrow and made us drink tears by the bucketful. 6You have made us the scorn of neighboring nations. Our enemies treat us as a joke.
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 always? Will you prolong your wrath to all generations?
- Isaiah 58:2Yet they act so pious! They come to the Temple every day and seem delighted to learn all about me. They act like a righteous nation that would never abandon the laws of its God. They ask me to take action on their behalf, pretending they want to be near me.
- Lamentations 3:44You have hidden yourself in a cloud so our prayers cannot reach you.
- Matthew 15:22A Gentile woman who lived there came to him, pleading, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! For my daughter is possessed by a demon that torments her severely.”
- Luke 18:1One day Jesus told his disciples a story to show that they should always pray and never give up.
- Psalms 74:1O God, why have you rejected us so long? Why is your anger so intense against the sheep of your own pasture?
- Deuteronomy 29:20The Lord will never pardon such people. Instead his anger and jealousy will burn against them. All the curses written in this book will come down on them, and the Lord will erase 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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