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Selected Verse: Psalms 80:4 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 80:4 |
Strong Concordance |
O LORD [03068] God [0430] of hosts [06635], how long wilt thou be angry [06225] against the prayer [08605] of thy people [05971]? |
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King James |
O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| be angry--(Compare Margin.) |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
O 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 Psa 24:10; and at Isa 1:24.
How long wilt thou be angry - Margin, as in Hebrew, wilt thou smoke. The allusion is derived from the comparison of anger with fire. See the notes at Psa 74:1.
Against the prayer of thy people - That is, Thou dost not answer their prayer; thou seemest to be angry against them even when they pray; or in the act of calling upon thee. The earnest inquiry here is, how long this was to continue. It seemed as if it would never end. Compare the notes at Psa 77:7-9. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| In the second strophe there issues forth bitter complaint concerning the form of wrath which the present assumes, and, thus confirmed, the petition rises anew. The transferring of the smoking (עשׁן) of God's nostrils = the hard breathing of anger (Psa 74:1, Deu 29:19), to God Himself is bold, but in keeping with the spirit of the Biblical view of the wrath of God (vid., on Psa 18:9), so that there is no need to avoid the expression by calling in the aid of the Syriac word עשׁן, to be strong, powerful (why art Thou hard, why dost Thou harden Thyself...). The perfect after עד־מתי has the sense of a present with a retrospective glance, as in Exo 10:3, cf. עד־אנה, to be understood after the analogy of חרה בּ (to kindle = to be angry against any one), for the prayer of the people is not an object of wrath, but only not a means of turning it aside. While the prayer is being presented, God veils Himself in the smoke of wrath, through which it is not able to penetrate. The lxx translators have read בתפלת עבדיך, for they render ἐπὶ τὴν προσευχήν τῶν δούλων σου (for which the common reading is τοῦ δούλου σου). Bread of tears is, according to Psa 42:4, bread consisting of tears; tears, running down in streams upon the lips of the praying and fasting one, are his meat and his drink. השׁקה with an accusative signifies to give something to drink, and followed by Beth, to give to drink by means of something, but it is not to be translated: potitandum das eis cum lacrymis trientem (De Dieu, von Ortenberg, and Hitzig). שׁלישׁ (Talmudic, a third part) is the accusative of more precise definition (Vatablus, Gesenius, Olshausen, and Hupfeld): by thirds (lxx ἐν μέτρῳ, Symmachus μέτρῳ); for a third of an ephah is certainly a very small measure for the dust of the earth (Isa 40:12), but a large one for tears. The neighbours are the neighbouring nations, to whom Israel is become מדון, an object, a butt of contention. In למו is expressed the pleasure which the mocking gives them. |
7 Will the Lord [0136] cast off [02186] for ever [05769]? and will [03254] he be favourable [07521] no more?
8 Is his mercy [02617] clean gone [0656] for ever [05331]? doth his promise [0562] fail [01584] for evermore [01755] [01755]?
9 Hath God [0410] forgotten [07911] to be gracious [02589]? hath he in anger [0639] shut up [07092] his tender mercies [07356]? Selah [05542].
1 Maschil [04905] of Asaph [0623]. O God [0430], why hast thou cast us off [02186] for ever [05331]? why doth thine anger [0639] smoke [06225] against the sheep [06629] of thy pasture [04830]?
24 Therefore saith [05002] the Lord [0113], the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635], the mighty One [046] of Israel [03478], Ah [01945], I will ease [05162] me of mine adversaries [06862], and avenge [05358] me of mine enemies [0341]:
10 Who is this King [04428] of glory [03519]? The LORD [03068] of hosts [06635], he is the King [04428] of glory [03519]. Selah [05542].
12 Who hath measured [04058] the waters [04325] in the hollow of his hand [08168], and meted out [08505] heaven [08064] with the span [02239], and comprehended [03557] the dust [06083] of the earth [0776] in a measure [07991], and weighed [08254] the mountains [02022] in scales [06425], and the hills [01389] in a balance [03976]?
4 When I remember [02142] these things, I pour out [08210] my soul [05315] in me: for I had gone [05674] with the multitude [05519], I went [01718] with them to the house [01004] of God [0430], with the voice [06963] of joy [07440] and praise [08426], with a multitude [01995] that kept holyday [02287].
3 And Moses [04872] and Aaron [0175] came in [0935] unto Pharaoh [06547], and said [0559] unto him, Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] God [0430] of the Hebrews [05680], How long [04970] wilt thou refuse [03985] to humble [06031] thyself before [06440] me? let my people [05971] go [07971], that they may serve [05647] me.
9 He bowed [05186] the heavens [08064] also, and came down [03381]: and darkness [06205] was under his feet [07272].
19 And it come to pass, when he heareth [08085] the words [01697] of this curse [0423], that he bless [01288] himself in his heart [03824], saying [0559], I shall have peace [07965], though [03588] I walk [03212] in the imagination [08307] of mine heart [03820], to add [05595] drunkenness [07302] to thirst [06771]:
1 Maschil [04905] of Asaph [0623]. O God [0430], why hast thou cast us off [02186] for ever [05331]? why doth thine anger [0639] smoke [06225] against the sheep [06629] of thy pasture [04830]?