Sálmarnir 80:4

Heilögum Biblíunni

4 (80:5) Drottinn, Guð hersveitanna, hversu lengi ætlar þú að vera reiður þrátt fyrir bænir lýðs þíns?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

how long: Psalms 85:5, Isaiah 58:2, Isaiah 58:3, Isaiah 58:6-9, Lamentations 3:44, Matthew 15:22-28, Luke 18:1-8

be angry: Heb. smoke, Psalms 74:1, Deuteronomy 29:20

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:20 - vexation Job 7:20 - I have sinned Job 30:20 - I cry Psalms 13:1 - How Psalms 22:2 - but Psalms 55:1 - hide Psalms 79:5 - How long Psalms 94:3 - Lord Song of Solomon 5:6 - I sought Isaiah 64:12 - General Jeremiah 14:17 - let mine Lamentations 3:8 - General

Gill's Notes on the 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 whom there is no standing, nor any before him when he is angry:

how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? which must be put up in a wrong manner, in a very cold and lukewarm way, without faith and love, and with wrath and doubting; or otherwise God is not angry with, nor sets himself against the prayer of his people; nor does he despise, but is highly delighted with it: or how long wilt thou be angry with thy people, and continue the tokens of thy displeasure, though they pray, and keep praying, unto thee? it is in the Hebrew text, "how long wilt thou smoke m at the prayer of thy people?" that is, cause thine anger to smoke at it; in which it is thought there is an allusion to the smoke of the incense, to which prayer is compared; see Psalms 141:2, and denotes the acceptance of it with God through the mediation of Christ; but here his displicency at it, not being offered up through him, and by faith in him; such were the prayers of the Pharisees, Matthew 6:5.

m עשנת "fumabis", Pagninus, Vatablus; "fumaturus es", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "fumasti", Montanus, Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis, & Ainsworth.

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 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 Psalms 24:10; and at Isaiah 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 Psalms 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 Psalms 77:7-9.