Psalms 79:6
Let your wrath be on the nations who have no knowledge of you, and on the kingdoms who have not made prayer to your name.
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In Context
5How long, O Lord? will you be angry for ever? will your wrath go on burning like fire?
7For they have taken Jacob for their meat, and made waste his house.
Cross References
Psalms 14:4Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.
Psalms 69:24\69:23\Let their eyes be blind so that they may not see; let their bodies for ever be shaking.
Isaiah 13:1The word of the Lord about Babylon which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.
Isaiah 23:1The word about Tyre. Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish, because your strong place is made waste; on the way back from the land of Kittim the news is given to them.
Isaiah 45:4Because of Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have taken for myself, I have sent for you by name, giving you a name of honour, though you had no knowledge of me.
Jeremiah 25:29For see, I am starting to send evil on the town which is named by my name, and are you to be without any punishment? You will not be without punishment: for I will send a sword on all people living on the earth, says the Lord of armies.
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 →