American Standard Version
Psalms 79:5
5How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever?Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
Psalms 79:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
- New International Version (NIV)How long, Lord? Will you be angry forever? How long will your jealousy burn like fire?
- English Standard Version (ESV)How long, O Lord? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
- New King James Version (NKJV)How long, Lord? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
Context of Psalms 79:5
3Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; And there was none to bury them. 4We are become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to them that are round about us. How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire? 6Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, And upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name. 7For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his habitation.
Read all of Psalms 79Psalms 79:5 word by word
עַד־מָ֣ה יְ֭הוָה תֶּאֱנַ֣ף לָנֶ֑צַח תִּבְעַ֥ר כְּמוֹ־אֵ֝֗שׁ קִנְאָתֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 79:5
- Psalms 13:1How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
- Psalms 74:1O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
- Psalms 80:4O Jehovah God of hosts, How long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
- Psalms 89:46How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? How longshall thy wrath burn like fire?
- Revelation 6:10and they cried with a great voice, saying, How long, O Master, the holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
- Psalms 85:5Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
- Psalms 103:9He will not always chide; Neither will he keephis angerfor ever.
- Isaiah 64:9Be not wroth very sore, O Jehovah, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, look, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
- Micah 7:18Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in lovingkindness.
- Deuteronomy 29:20Jehovah will not pardon him, but then the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven.
- Deuteronomy 32:16They moved him to jealousy with strange gods; With abominations provoked they him to anger.
- Ezekiel 36:5therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land unto themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.
- Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of Jehovah’s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he will make an end, yea, a terrible end, of all them that dwell in the land.
- Zephaniah 3:8Therefore wait ye for me, saith Jehovah, until the day that I rise up to the prey; for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger; for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
Commentaries on Psalms 79:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5How long, Lord? - Wilt thou continue thine anger against us, and suffer us to be insulted, and thyself blasphemed?Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5How long, Lord? - See Psalm 74:1, note; Psalm 74:10, note; and Psalm 77:7-9, notes. This is the language, not of impatience, but of anxiety; not of complaining, but of wonder. It is language such as the people of God are often constrained to employ under heavy trials - trials which continue so long that it seems as if they would never end. Shall thy jealousy, burn like fire? - That is, Shall it continue to burn like fire? Shall it utterly consume us? On…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-8The intensity of God’s judgment surprises the people; they cry out in despair for compassion, forgiveness, and relief. Verse 6–7 are nearly identical to Jeremiah 10:25.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. How long--(Psa 13:1). be angry--(Psa 74:1-10). jealousy burn--(De 29:20).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 79
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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