Verse 4

O God, Lorde of hoastes: howe long wylt thou be angry at the prayer of thy people?

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 85:5 : 5 Wilt thou be displeased at vs for euer? and wylt thou stretche out thy wrath from one generation to another,
  • Isa 58:2-3 : 2 For they seeke me dayly, and wyll knowe my wayes, euen as it were a people that dyd right, and had not forsaken the statutes of their God: they aske of me concerning right iudgement, and wyll be nye vnto God. 3 Wherefore fast we say they and thou seest it not? we put our liues to straitnesse, and thou regardest it not?
  • Isa 58:6-9 : 6 Doth not this fasting rather please me, That thou lose the wicked bands, that thou take of the ouer heauie burthens, that thou let the oppressed go free, and breake all maner of yoke? 7 To deale thy bread to the hungrie, and to bring the poore wandering home into thy house? when thou seest the naked that thou couer hym, and hide not thy selfe from thy neighbour, and despise not thyne owne fleshe? 8 Then shall thy light breake foorth as the morning, and thy health florishe right shortly: righteousnesse shall go before thee, and the glory of the Lorde shall embrace thee. 9 Then if thou callest, the Lorde shall aunswere thee, if thou cryest, he shall say, here I am: yea if thou layest away from thee thy burthens, and holdest thy fingers, and ceassest from vngracious talking:
  • Lam 3:44 : 44 Thou hast hid thy selfe in a cloude, that our prayer should not go through.
  • Matt 15:22-28 : 22 And beholde, a woman of the Chananites, which came out of the same coastes, cryed vnto hym, saying: Haue mercie on me O Lorde, thou sonne of Dauid: My daughter is greeuously vexed with a deuyll. 23 But he aunswered her not a worde: and his disciples came, and besought hym, saying: sende her away, for she cryeth after vs. 24 But he aunswered, and sayde: I am not sent but vnto the lost sheepe of the house of Israel. 25 Then came she, and worshipped him, saying: Lorde, helpe me. 26 He aunswered, and sayde: it is not meete to take the chyldrens bread, and to cast it to litle dogges. 27 She aunswered and sayde, trueth Lorde: and yet litle dogges eate of the crummes, which fall fro their maisters table. 28 Then Iesus aunswered, and sayde vnto her: O woman, great is thy fayth, be it vnto thee, euen as thou wylt. And her daughter was made whole, euen from that same tyme.
  • Luke 18:1-8 : 1 And he put foorth a parable vnto them, to this ende that me ought alwayes to pray, & not to be weery, 2 Saying: There was in a certayne citie, a iudge, whiche feared not God, neither regarded man. 3 And there was a certayne widdowe in the same citie, and she came vnto him, saying: Auenge me of mine aduersarie. 4 And he woulde not for a whyle. But afterwarde he sayde within hym selfe: Though I feare not God, nor care for man, 5 Yet because this widdowe much troubleth me, I wyll auenge her: leste she come at the last, & make me weery. 6 And the Lorde sayde: heare what the vuryghteous iudge sayeth. 7 And shall not God auenge his elect, which crye day and nyght vnto hym? yea, though he deferre them, 8 I tell you he wyll auenge them, and that quickly. Neuerthelesse, when the sonne of man commeth, shall he fynde fayth on the earth?
  • Deut 29:20 : 20 And so the Lorde wyll not consent to be mercifull vnto hym, but then the wrath of the Lorde and his gelousie shall smoke agaynst that man: and all the curses that are written in this booke shall lyght vpon hym, and the Lorde shal do out his name from vnder heaue.
  • Ps 59:5 : 5 And thou O God Lorde of hoastes, Lorde of Israel: awake to visite all Heathen, and be not mercifull vnto all them that offend of malice. Selah.
  • Ps 74:1 : 1 A wise instruction (to be song) of Asaph. O Lorde wherfore dost thou forsake vs altogether? wherfore breaketh foorth thy anger agaynst the sheepe of thy pasture.
  • Ps 79:5 : 5 O God, howe long wylt thou be angry? shall thy ielousie burne lyke fire for euer?