Psalms 80:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? ”

Psalms 80:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 worl...
Psalms 80:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be (d) angry against the prayer of thy people? (d) The faithful fear God's anger, when they perceive that their prayers are not heard immediately.
Psalms 80:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

LXXX. Then and Now. The Messianic Hope. The Ps. depicts Judah's forlorn condition, first directly ( Psalms 80:1-7 ) and then under the figure of a vine ( Psalms 80:8-19 ). It is divided into stroph...
Psalms 80:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

O LORD God of hosts. Hebrew. Jehovah. Elohim Zebaioth. See note on 1 Samuel 1:3 . Not common in the Psalms, but occurring in Psalms 59:6 and Psalms 84:8 . How long... ? Figure of speech E...
Psalms 80:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

4 O Jehovah, God of Hosts! God having in the Scriptures freely promised, and so often assured us, that the prayers of his people will not be disappointed, it may excite our surprise to find...
Psalms 80:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
Psalms 80:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

How long wilt thou be angry? &c.— How long dost thou preserve thy wrath during the prayer of thy people? Mudge.
Psalms 80:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry - literally, 'dost thou smoke?' Compare Psalms 18:8 ; Psa...
Psalms 80:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This Ps. is an appeal to God to save His people from the adversities that have come upon them, and have made them the laughing stock of their enemies ( Psalms 80:1-7 ). Their past history is recalled...
Psalms 80:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

How long wilt thou be angry? — Literally, until when hast thou fumed? A pregnant construction combining two clauses. Thou hast been long angry; how long wilt thou continue to be angry? (Comp. Ps...
Psalms 80:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 80:1-19 THIS psalm is a monument of some time of great national calamity; but its allusions do not enable us to reach certainty as to what that calamity was. Two striking features of it hav...
Psalms 80:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Turn Us Again, O God” Psalms 80:1-7 The ten tribes were in captivity, and the hearts of their brethren, still living at Jerusalem under the reign of David's line, seem to have turned with grea...
Psalms 80:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Again we have a song out of the midst of distress. There is far more light and colour about it than in the previous one. The circumstances do not seem to be any more favourable than those described b...
Psalms 80:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

These are most blessed tokens, and highly expressive of grace in the heart. And the prayer, being again repeated, plainly shows from whence alone the church looked for both the work of true prayer an...
Psalms 80:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

O Lord God of hosts ,.... Aben Ezra and Kimchi observe, that the word "Elohe" is here understood, and the words to be read, "O Lord God, the God of hosts"; of the armies above and below, against who...
Psalms 80:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? Ver. 4. O Lord God of hosts ] Iehova bellipotens Deus. God hath his upper and nether forces, as his horse and f...
Psalms 80:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

How long wilt thou be angry , &c. Thou art so far from answering our prayers, whereby we seek thy favour, that, by thy continuing and increasing our miseries, thou seemest to be more incensed ag...
Psalms 80:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Mournful Complaints. To the chief musician upon Shoshannim, Eduth. A psalm of Asaph. 1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israe...
Psalms 80:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Thou art so far from answering our prayers whereby we seek to appease thee, that by thy continuance and increase of our miseries thou seemest to be the more incensed against us by them.
Psalms 80:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim-Eduth .” On “ Shoshannim ” see Introduction to Psalms 45 . Probably “Shoshannim—Eduth” denotes “the melody or air ‘after’ or ‘...
Psalms 80:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 80:1-3 . Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth. Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy st...
Psalms 80:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Though we know not the occasion on which this song was composed, yet as the tribes still inhabited the land, it probably was written on the same occasion as the preseding, and prays for the same salv...
Psalms 80:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock. The Almighty in relation to erring man I. As a shepherd ( Psalms 80:1 ). 1. His flock indicated. “Joseph” may stand for...
Psalms 80:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION A PSALM in which the writer entreats God to restore his favour once more to Israel, and especially to the ten tribes, who are in affliction, and in danger of perishing ( Psalms 80:1...
Psalms 80:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Prayer for the Deliverance of the Church. To the chief musician upon Shoshannim-Eduth, to be rendered in public worship according to the melody "Lilies a Testimony," a psalm of Asaph, the hymn ref...
Psalms 80:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 29:20 ; Isaiah 58:2 ; Isaiah 58:3 ; Isaiah 58:6-9 ; Lamentations 3:44 ; Luke 18:1-8 ; Matthew 15:22-28 ; Psalms 74:1 ; Psalms 85:5

Psalms 80:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 80:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 80:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 80:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 80:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 80:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 80:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 80:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 80:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 80:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 80:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 80:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 80:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 80:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 80:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 80:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 80:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 80:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 80:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 80:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 80:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 80:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 80:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 80:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 80:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 80:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge