Psalms 79:5

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

3They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead. 4We 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? 6Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name, 7for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.

Psalms 79:5 word by word

עַד־מָ֣ה יְ֭הוָה תֶּאֱנַ֣ף לָנֶ֑צַח תִּבְעַ֥ר כְּמוֹ־אֵ֝֗שׁ קִנְאָתֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear

• How longעַד‛ad · tillH5704
• How longמָהmâh mah mâ ma meh · what?H4100
• O LORDיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• Will You be angryאָנַף'ânaph · be angryH599
• foreverנֵ֫צַחnetsach nêtsach · perpetuityH5331
• Will Your jealousyקִנְאָהqin'âh · jealousyH7068
• burnבָּעַרbâ‛ar · to burn: burnH1197
• likeכְּמוֹkemô kâmô · likeH3644
• fireאֵשׁ'êsh · fireH784

Cross-references for Psalms 79:5

• Psalms 13:1How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
• Psalms 74:1Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
• Psalms 80:4O LORD God of Hosts, how long will Your anger smolder against the prayers of Your people?
• Psalms 89:46How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?
• Revelation 6:10And 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?”
• Psalms 85:5Will You be angry with us forever? Will You draw out Your anger to all generations?
• Psalms 103:9He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever.
• Isaiah 64:9Do 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 7:18Who 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?
• Deuteronomy 29:20The 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
• Deuteronomy 32:16They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
• Ezekiel 36:5Therefore 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.
• Zephaniah 1:18Neither 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 the earth.
• Zephaniah 3:8Therefore 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.

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

Topics related to Psalms 79:5

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Jealousy

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• Asaph
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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