Psalms 79:8

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 Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that do not call on Your name. 7For they have devoured Jacob and laid waste his country. Do not hold against us the sins of our fathers. May Your mercies come quickly to meet us, for we are brought very low. 9Help us, God of our salvation— for the sake of the glory of Your Name. Deliver us, and atone for our sins— for Your name’s sake. 10Why should the nations say: “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, let it be known among the nations that You avenge the shed blood of Your servants.

Psalms 79:8 word by word

אַֽל־תִּזְכָּר־לָנוּ֮ עֲוֹנֹ֪ת רִאשֹׁ֫נִ֥ים מַ֭הֵר יְקַדְּמ֣וּנוּ רַחֲמֶ֑יךָ כִּ֖י דַלּ֣וֹנוּ מְאֹֽד׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• O rememberזָכַרzâkar · to rememberH2142
• not against us formerרִאשׁוֹןri'shôn ri'shôn · first: previousH7223
• iniquitiesעָוֺן‛âvôn ‛âvôn · iniquity: crimeH5771
• let thy tender merciesרַחֲמִיםracham · compassionH7356
• speedilyמַהֵרmahêr · quickH4118
• preventקָדַםqâdam · to meetH6923
• us: for we are broughtדָּלַלdâlal · to languishH1809
• veryמְאֹדme'ôd · muchH3966

Cross-references for Psalms 79:8

• Psalms 25:7Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellion. According to Your mercy remember me, for the sake of Your goodness, Adonai.
• Psalms 130:3If You, Adonai, kept a record of iniquities— my Lord, who could stand?
• Exodus 32:34Now go, lead the people to the place that I told you about. My angel will go before you. Nevertheless, on the day when I take account, I will hold them accountable for their sin.”
• 1 Kings 17:18So she said to Elijah, “What do I have to do with you, man of God? Have you come to me to remind me of my sin and kill my son?”
• Isaiah 64:9Your holy cities became a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
• Hosea 8:13Sacrifices are gifts for Me— should they sacrifice meat and then eat it? Adonai will not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sin— they will return to Egypt.
• Hosea 9:9They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity, He will punish their sin.
• Revelation 18:5For her sins have piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.
• Genesis 15:16Then in the fourth generation they will return here—for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
• Ezekiel 2:3He said to me, “Son of man, I send you to Bnei-Yisrael, to rebellious nations that have been rebelling against Me. They and their fathers have rebelled against Me to this very day.
• Daniel 9:16Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, let Your anger and Your fury turn away, please, from Jerusalem, Your city, Your holy mountain. Because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become an object of scorn to all those around us.
• Matthew 23:32Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers!
• Psalms 21:3You granted him his heart’s desire, and You did not withhold the request of his lips. Selah
• Psalms 69:16Do not let floodwaters sweep over me, nor the deep swallow me up, nor the Pit shut its mouth over me.
• Psalms 106:43Many times He delivered them, but they kept rebelling deliberately, and so sank low into their iniquity.
• Psalms 116:6Adonai protects the simple-hearted. When I was brought low, 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

Topics related to Psalms 79:8

• Afflictions and Adversities

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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