Psalms 79:6
Pour out thy wrath on the nations which acknowledge thee not. And on the kingdoms which call not upon thy name!
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
5How long, O LORD! wilt thou be angry for ever? How long shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
7For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his dwelling-place.
Cross References
Psalms 14:4Shall not the evil-doers be requited, Who devour my people like bread, And call not upon Jehovah?
Psalms 69:24Pour out upon them thine indignation, And may the heat of thine anger overtake them!
Isaiah 13:1A prophecy concerning Babylon, which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.
Isaiah 23:1The prophecy concerning Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste; No house, no entrance is left! From the land of the Chittaeans were the tidings brought to them.
Isaiah 45:4For the sake of Jacob, my servant, And Israel, my chosen, I have called thee by thy name; I have spoken to thee as a friend, though thou hast not known me.
Jeremiah 25:29For behold, upon the city which is called by my name I begin to bring evil; and shall ye go wholly unpunished? Ye shall not go unpunished; for I am about to call the sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith Jehovah 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 →