New King James Version
Psalms 79:5
5How long, Lord? Will You be angry forever? Will Your 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 Living Translation (NLT)O Lord, how long will you be angry with us? Forever? How long will your jealousy burn like fire?
Context of Psalms 79:5
3Their blood they have shed like water all around Jerusalem, And there was no one to bury them. 4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and derision to those who are around us. How long, Lord? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire? 6Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not know You, And on the kingdoms that do not call on Your name. 7For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his dwelling place.
Read all of Psalms 79Psalms 79:5 word by word
עַד־מָ֣ה יְ֭הוָה תֶּאֱנַ֣ף לָנֶ֑צַח תִּבְעַ֥ר כְּמוֹ־אֵ֝֗שׁ קִנְאָתֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
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 74:1O God, why have You cast us off forever? Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?
- Psalms 80:4O Lord God of hosts, How long will You be angry Against the prayer of Your people?
- Psalms 89:46How long, Lord? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath burn like fire?
- Revelation 6:10And they cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
- Psalms 85:5Will You be angry with us forever? Will You prolong Your anger to all generations?
- Psalms 103:9He will not always strive with us, Nor will He keep His anger forever.
- Isaiah 64:9Do not be furious, O Lord, Nor remember iniquity forever; Indeed, please look—we all are Your people!
- Micah 7:18Who is a God like You, Pardoning iniquity And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in mercy.
- Deuteronomy 29:20“The Lord would not spare him; for then the anger of the Lord and His jealousy would burn against that man, and every curse that is written in this book would settle on him, and the Lord would blot out his name from under heaven.
- Deuteronomy 32:16They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods; With abominations they provoked Him to anger.
- Ezekiel 36:5therefore thus says the Lord God: “Surely I have spoken in My burning jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave My land to themselves as a possession, with wholehearted joy and spiteful minds, in order to plunder its open country.” ’
- Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold Shall be able to deliver them In the day of the Lord’s wrath; But the whole land shall be devoured By the fire of His jealousy, For He will make speedy riddance Of all those who dwell in the land.
- Zephaniah 3:8“Therefore wait for Me,” says the Lord, “Until the day I rise up for plunder; My determination is to gather the nations To My assembly of kingdoms, To pour on them My indignation, All My fierce anger; 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
Topics related to Psalms 79:5
In the dictionaries
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
New King James Version — © 1982 Thomas Nelson, Inc
Commentaries