Psalms 79:5
How long, Lord? wilt thou be indignant for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
In Context
4We are become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those that are round about us.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:20(29:19) The Lord will not pardon him; but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and there shall rest upon him all the curse that is written in this book; and the Lord will blot out his name from under the heavens.
Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire is kindled in my anger, and it burneth unto the lowest deep; and it consumeth the earth with her products, and it setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Psalms 13:1“To the chief musician, a psalm of David.” (13:2) How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me continually! how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Psalms 74:9Our signs do we not see: there is no more any prophet: and there is no one among us that knoweth how long.
Psalms 80:5(80:6) Thou feedest them with the bread of tears, and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
Psalms 89:46(89:47) How long, Lord, wilt thou hide thyself, continually? how long shall thy fury 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 →