Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 80:4
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.
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.
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 abov...
Psalms 80 Looking to Heaven for Help Through the Man at His Right Hand _ 1. Calling to the Shepherd (Psalms 80:1)_ 2. The ruin of His inheritance (Psalms 80:5) 3. The Man of the right hand ...
LXXX. THEN AND NOW. THE MESSIANIC HOPE. The Ps. depicts Judah's forlorn condition, first directly (Psalms 80:1) and then under the figure of a vine (Psalms 80:8). It is divided into strophes by the re...
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 _Erotesis._ A...
_O Lord God_of _hosts Jehovah Elôhîm Tsebâôth_, as in Psalms 59:5. For the meaning see note on Psalms 46:7. There is a special significance in the repeated appeals to Jehovah (4, 14, 19) by the title...
How long shall Israel continue to be the object of Jehovah's displeasure, and the scorn of neighbouring nations?...
HOW LONG WILT THOU BE ANGRY? &C.— _How long dost thou preserve thy wrath during the prayer of thy people?_ Mudge....
PSALMS 80 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Prayer for the Flock and Vine of Israel. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 80:1-3, By Three Significant Titles, Jehovah is besought to interpose for Salvation, before Three Sig...
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; Psalms 74:1;...
80:4 anger (c-9) Lit. 'wilt thou.'...
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). Their past history is recalled unde...
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ MAKE US UNITED PSALMS 80 Jesus said, "I pray for the people that will believe in me … that they may be united. Then the world will believe that you sent me". ...
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. Psalms...
_[Psalms 80:5]_ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהִ֣ים צְבָאֹ֑ות עַד ־מָתַ֥י...
Psalms 80:1 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 have been...
“TURN US AGAIN, O GOD” Psalms 80:1 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 great longin...
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 be...
New moon of Tisri, Leviticus xxiii. 24. --- Noted. Hebrew, "in the obscure, in the day of our solemnity." (Calmet) --- Protestants, "in the time appointed, on our solemn feast-day." Cose may denote "o...
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 and...
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 the faith...
In Psalms 80 it is remarkable how we are upon the ground of Israel here, their past or future historical associations, not Christ (though all depends on Him, of course) or the godly Jew in the midst o...
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 whom t...
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 foo...
_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 against...
O Lord God of hosts, the Ruler and General of all the heavenly forces, whom He freely used in His service, HOW LONG WILT THOU BE ANGRY, literally, "smoke," said of indignant snorting, AGAINST THE PRAY...
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 referr...
WILT THOU BE ANGRY: _ Heb._ wilt thou smoke?...
1-7 He that dwelleth upon the mercy-seat, is the good Shepherd of his people. But we can neither expect the comfort of his love, nor the protection of his arm, unless we partake of his converting gra...
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 LORD H3068 God H430 hosts H6635 angry H6225 (H8804) prayer H8605 people H5971 how long -...
Psalms 80:1. _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 strengt...
CONTENTS: The tokens of God's favor besought and the former blessings cited as a basis for present deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, Asaph. CONCLUSION: There is no obtaining favor with God until we are c...
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 salva...
_O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of Thy people?_ GOD’S ANGER The Lord God of hosts is not properly a title of creation, but of providence. All creatures have their...
_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 all Is...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 80:1. This is a community lament for a situation in which the people have received hard treatment from the Gentiles. It asks God to “restore us, let your face shine that we...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 80:4 The people cry because God is ANGRY WITH his PEOPLE’S PRAYERS (which implies that they have been unfaithful, see...
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 ‘in t...
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...
Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine foRuth (Psalms 80:1). God's dwelling between the cherubim. Actually, in the book...
Deuteronomy 29:20; Isaiah 58:2; Isaiah 58:3; Isaiah 58:6; La