Psalms 79:6
Pour Thy fury on the nations who have not known Thee, And on kingdoms that have not called in Thy name.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
5Till when, O Jehovah? art Thou angry for ever? Thy jealousy doth burn as fire.
7For [one] hath devoured Jacob, And his habitation they have made desolate.
Cross References
Psalms 14:4Have all working iniquity not known? Those consuming my people have eaten bread, Jehovah they have not called.
Psalms 69:24Pour upon them Thine indignation, And the fierceness of Thine anger doth seize them.
Isaiah 13:1The burden of Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz hath seen:
Isaiah 23:1The Burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, For it hath been destroyed, Without house, without entrance, From the land of Chittim it was revealed to them.
Isaiah 45:4For the sake of my servant Jacob, And of Israel My chosen, I call also thee by thy name, I surname thee, And thou hast not known Me.
Jeremiah 25:29For lo, in the city over which My name is called, I am beginning to do evil, And ye — ye are entirely acquitted! Ye are not acquitted, for a sword I am proclaiming, For all inhabitants of the land, An affirmation of Jehovah 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 →