Psalms 79:6
Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you 1 and on the kingdoms that do not call upon your name. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
5How long, Yahweh? Will you stay angry forever? 1 How long will your jealous anger burn like fire? 1
7For they have devoured Jacob 1 and destroyed his villages. 1
Cross References
Psalms 14:4Do they not know anything, those who commit iniquity, 1 those who eat up my people as they eat bread, 1 but who do not call on Yahweh? 1
Psalms 69:24Pour out your indignation on them, 1 and let the fierceness of your anger overtake them. 1
Isaiah 13:1A declaration about Babylon, that Isaiah son of Amoz received: 1
Isaiah 23:1A declaration about Tyre: 1 Howl, you ships of Tarshish; for there is neither home nor harbor; 1 from the land of Cyprus it has been revealed to them. + 23:1 Instead of Cyprus , some modern versions keep Kittim , the Hebrew name for this island. 1
Isaiah 45:4For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel my chosen, 1 I have called you by your name, giving you a title of honor, though you have not known me. 1
Jeremiah 25:29For see, I am about to bring disaster on the city that is called by my name, and should you yourselves be free from punishment? You will not be free, for I am calling a sword against all the inhabitants of the land!—this is the declaration of Yahweh 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 →