Psalms 79:6
Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,
World English Bible Classic
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In Context
5How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
7for they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.
Cross References
Psalms 14:4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on the LORD?
Psalms 69:24Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.
Isaiah 13:1The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
Isaiah 23:1The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.
Isaiah 45:4For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called you by your name. I have given you a title, though you have not known me.
Jeremiah 25:29For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You will not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says the LORD of Armies.”’
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 →