American Standard Version
Psalms 79:8
8Remember not against us the iniquities of our forefathers:Let thy tender mercies speedily meet us;For we are brought very low.
Psalms 79:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
- New International Version (NIV)Do not hold against us the sins of past generations; may your mercy come quickly to meet us, for we are in desperate need.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Do not remember against us our former iniquities; let your compassion come speedily to meet us, for we are brought very low.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Oh, do not remember former iniquities against us! Let Your tender mercies come speedily to meet us, For we have been brought very low.
Context of Psalms 79:8
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. Remember not against us the iniquities of our forefathers: Let thy tender mercies speedily meet us; For we are brought very low. 9Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name; And deliver us, and forgive our sins, for thy name’s sake. 10Wherefore should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed Be known among the nations in our sight.
Read all of Psalms 79Psalms 79:8 word by word
אַֽל־תִּזְכָּר־לָנוּ֮ עֲוֹנֹ֪ת רִאשֹׁ֫נִ֥ים מַ֭הֵר יְקַדְּמ֣וּנוּ רַחֲמֶ֑יךָ כִּ֖י דַלּ֣וֹנוּ מְאֹֽד׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 79:8
- Psalms 25:7Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: According to thy lovingkindness remember thou me, For thy goodness’ sake, O Jehovah.
- Psalms 130:3If thou, Jehovah, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
- Exodus 32:34And now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine angel shall go before thee; nevertheless in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.
- 1 Kings 17:18And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? thou art come unto me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son!
- Isaiah 64:9Be not wroth very sore, O Jehovah, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, look, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
- Hosea 8:13As for the sacrifices of mine offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; but Jehovah accepteth them not: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins; they shall return to Egypt.
- Hosea 9:9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
- Revelation 18:5for her sins have reached even unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
- Genesis 15:16And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.
- Ezekiel 2:3And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to nations that are rebellious, which have rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me even unto this very day.
- Daniel 9:16O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, let thine anger and thy wrath, I pray thee, be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are round about us.
- Matthew 23:32Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
- Psalms 21:3For thou meetest him with the blessings of goodness: Thou settest a crown of fine gold on his head.
- Psalms 69:16Answer me, O Jehovah; for thy lovingkindness is good: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies turn thou unto me.
- Psalms 106:43Many times did he deliver them; But they were rebellious in their counsel, And were brought low in their iniquity.
- Psalms 116:6Jehovah preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he saved me.
Commentaries on Psalms 79:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8Remember not against us former iniquities - Visit us not for the sins of our forefathers. Speedily prevent us - Let them go before us, and turn us out of the path of destruction; for there is no help for us but in thee. We are brought very low - Literally, "We are greatly thinned." Few of us remain.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8O remember not against us forrmer iniquities - Margin, The iniquities of them that were before us. The Hebrew may mean either former times, or former generations. The allusion, however, is substantially the same. It is not their own iniquities which are particularly referred to, but the iniquity of the nation as committed in former times; and the prayer is, that God would not visit them with the results of the sins of former generations, though their own…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-13Verses 6-13 Those who persist in ignorance of God, and neglect of prayer, are the ungodly. How unrighteous soever men were, the Lord was righteous in permitting them to do what they did. Deliverances from trouble are mercies indeed, when grounded upon the pardon of sin; we should therefore be more earnest in prayer for the removal of our sins than for the removal of afflictions. They had no hopes but from God's mercies, his tender mercies. They plead no…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8The people’s many sins in the past helped lead to the exile (2 Kings 17:7–23; 24:3–4). However, each person also suffered because of his or her own sin (Jeremiah 31:30; Ezekiel 18:20).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. former iniquities--literally, "iniquities of former times." prevent us--literally, "meet us," as in Psa 21:3.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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