Psalm 79:5 “How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn l…”

Psalm 79:5

How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

World English Bible

How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

American Standard Version

How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

Geneva Bible 1599

Lord, howe long wilt thou be angrie, for euer? shall thy gelousie burne like fire?

Darby Translation

How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

Young's Literal Translation

Till when, O Jehovah? art Thou angry for ever? Thy jealousy doth burn as fire.

Bible in Basic English

How long, O Lord? will you be angry for ever? will your wrath go on burning like fire?

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Cross references

“How long”

Psalm 89:46 Psalm 74:1 Psalm 80:4 Revelation 6:10 Psalm 13:1 Psalm 13:2

Psalm 89:46 · BSB

How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?

Psalm 74:1 · BSB

Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?

Psalm 80:4 · BSB

O LORD God of Hosts, how long will Your anger smolder against the prayers of Your people?

Revelation 6:10 · BSB

And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge those who dwell upon the earth and avenge our blood?”

Psalm 13:1 · BSB

How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?

Psalm 13:2 · BSB

How long must I wrestle in my soul, with sorrow in my heart each day? How long will my enemy dominate me?

“wilt”

Psalm 85:5 Psalm 103:9 Isaiah 64:9 Micah 7:18

Psalm 85:5 · BSB

Will You be angry with us forever? Will You draw out Your anger to all generations?

Psalm 103:9 · BSB

He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever.

Isaiah 64:9 · BSB

Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!

Micah 7:18 · BSB

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

“jealousy”

Deuteronomy 29:20 Zephaniah 3:8 Ezekiel 36:5 Deuteronomy 32:16 Deuteronomy 32:22 Zephaniah 1:18

Deuteronomy 29:20 · BSB

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

Zephaniah 3:8 · BSB

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…

Ezekiel 36:5 · BSB

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,…

Deuteronomy 32:16 · BSB

They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.

Deuteronomy 32:22 · BSB

For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

Zephaniah 1:18 · BSB

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on th…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.

6Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,

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