Psalms 79:5
How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
World English 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 to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:20The LORD will not pardon him, but then the LORD’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under the sky.
Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.
Psalms 13:1How long, LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
Psalms 74:9We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
Psalms 80:5You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
Psalms 89:46How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?
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 →