Psalms 80:4
O LORD God of hosts, how long will thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
In Context
3Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
5Thou have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:20LORD will not pardon him, but then the anger of LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lay upon him, and LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.
Psalms 31:17Let me not be put to shame, O LORD, for I have called upon thee. Let the wicked be put to shame. Let them be silent in Sheol.
Psalms 60:3Thou have shown thy people hard things. Thou have made us to drink the wine of staggering.
Psalms 79:5How long, O LORD? will thou be angry forever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
Isaiah 58:2Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.
Lamentations 3:44Thou have covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 80:2-8
Mournful Complaints. 1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth. 2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us. 3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. 4 O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? 5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure. 6 Thou makest us a strife… Read the whole commentary →