Psalms 79:5
How long, Yahweh? Will you stay angry forever? 1 How long will your jealous anger burn like fire? 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
In Context
4We have become a reproach for our neighbors, 1 mocking and derision to those who are around us. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:20Yahweh will not pardon him, but instead, the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy will smolder against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book will come on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under heaven.
Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire is kindled by my anger 1 and is burning to the lowest Sheol; 1 it is devouring the earth and its harvest; 1 it is setting on fire the foundations of the mountains. 1
Psalms 13:1How long, Yahweh, will you keep forgetting about me? 1 How long will you hide your face from me? 1
Psalms 74:9We do not see any more signs; 1 there is no prophet any more, 1 and no one among us knows how long this will last. 1
Psalms 80:5You have fed them with the bread of tears 1 and given them tears to drink in great quantities. 1
Psalms 89:46How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself, forever? 1 How long will your anger burn like fire? 1
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 →