Psalms 79:5
How long will you be angry, O Lord? Will your jealousy burn like fire forever?
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
In Context
4On every side our neighbors revile us and mock us and jeer at us.
Cross References
Psalms 13:1How long, Lord, will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
Psalms 74:9No symbol of ours do we see any more: no prophet is there any more, none is with us who knows how long.
Psalms 80:5You have fed them with bread of tears, you have made them drink tears by the measure.
Psalms 89:46How long, Lord? Will you hide yourself forever? How long are the fires of your wrath to burn?
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 →