Psalms 80:4
LORD God of Armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
World English Bible Classic
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, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
5You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:20The LORD will not pardon him, but then the LORD’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under the sky.
Psalms 31:17Let me not be disappointed, LORD, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.
Psalms 60:3You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.
Psalms 79:5How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
Isaiah 58:2Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.
Lamentations 3:44You have covered yourself 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 →