“O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?”
The people question God's anger: "O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry with your people's prayers?" The rhetorical question expresses frustration that despite prayer and supplication, God continues in anger. The phrase "your people's prayers" suggests that the people have been praying earnestly, yet God's wrath seems unaffected.
Church Fathers on Psalms 80:4
1. ...If perchance things obscure demand the office of an interpreter, those things which are evident ought to require of me the office of a reader. The song here is of the Advent of the Lord and of our Saviour Jesus Christ, and of His vineyard. But the singer of the song is that Asaph, as far as does appear, enlightened and converted, by whose name ye know the synagogue to be signified. Lastly, the title of the Psalm is: “For the end in behalf of them that shall be changed;”…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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