Psalms 79:5
How long, O LORD? will thou be angry forever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
In Context
4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are round about us.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:20LORD will not pardon him, but then the anger of LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lay upon him, and LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.
Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire is kindled in my anger, and burns to the lowest Sheol, and devours the earth with its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Psalms 13:1How long, O LORD? Will thou forget me forever? How long will thou hide thy face from me?
Psalms 74:9We do not see our signs. There is no more any prophet, nor is there among us he who knows how long.
Psalms 80:5Thou have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
Psalms 89:46How long, O LORD? Will thou hide thyself forever? Shall thy wrath burn like fire?
Matthew Henry on Psalms 79:2-6
Mournful Complaints. 1 O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. 2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. 3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them. 4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. 5 How long, Lord ? wilt thou be… Read the whole commentary →