Psalms 79:5
How long, LORD? will you be angry for ever? shall your jealousy burn like fire?
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
In Context
4We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:20The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the low hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Psalms 13:1How long will you forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long will you hide your face from me?
Psalms 74:9We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knows how long.
Psalms 80:5You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure.
Psalms 89:46How long, LORD? will you hide yourself for ever? shall 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 →