Psalms 79:6
Pour out thy fury over the nations that acknowledge thee not, and over the kingdoms that have not called on thy name.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
5How long, Lord? wilt thou be indignant for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
7For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling-place.
Cross References
Psalms 14:4Is there no knowledge in all the workers of wickedness? who eat up my people as they eat bread; [while] they do not call on the Lord.
Psalms 69:24(69:25) Pour out over them thy indignation, and let the heat of thy anger overtake them.
Isaiah 13:1The doom of Babylon, which Isaiah Amoz' son foresaw.
Isaiah 23:1The doom of Tyre. Wail, ye ships of Tharshish; for it is laid waste, without house, without entrance: from the land of Kittim hath it been revealed to them.
Isaiah 45:4For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my elect; and I have called thee by thy name: I have designated thee, though thou hast not known me.
Jeremiah 25:29For lo, on the city which is called by my name, I begin to inflict evil, and ye will remain utterly unpunished? Ye shall not remain unpunished; for a sword am I calling up over all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of hosts.
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 →