Psalms 79:5
3 They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.
4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
6 Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,
7 for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
- KJV
- How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
- WEB
- How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
- ASV
- How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
- DARBY
- How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
- BLB
- Until when, O YHWH? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
- ÅB
- Hvor lenge, Herre, vil du være vred evindelig? Hvor lenge skal din nidkjærhet brenne som ild?
- OTB
- Hvor lenge, Herre? Vil din vrede vare evig?
Vil din nidkjærhet brenne som ild? - B1930
- Hvor lenge, Herre, vil du være vred evindelig? Hvor lenge skal din nidkjærhet brenne som ild?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 89:46
How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?
Read in contextPsalms 74:1
Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
Read in contextPsalms 85:5
Will You be angry with us forever? Will You draw out Your anger to all generations?
Read in contextDeuteronomy 29:20
The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
Read in contextZephaniah 3:8
Therefore wait for Me,” declares the LORD, “until the day I rise to testify. For My decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them My indignation— all My burning anger. For all the earth will be consumed by the fire of My jealousy.
Read in contextPsalms 80:4
O LORD God of Hosts, how long will Your anger smolder against the prayers of Your people?
Read in contextPsalms 13:1–2
How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
Read in contextEzekiel 36:5
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Surely in My burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who took My land as their own possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, so that its pastureland became plunder.
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