KJV King James Version
How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
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Psalm 79:5
How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
WEB World English Bible
How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
ASV American Standard Version
How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Till when, O Jehovah? art Thou angry for ever? Thy jealousy doth burn as fire.
Surrounding context — Psalm 79
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 angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
6 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
8 O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
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Psalm 89:46How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?Psalm 74:1Maschil of Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast [us] off for ever? [why] doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?Psalm 85:5Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?Zephaniah 3:8Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination [is] to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, [even] all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.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.Ezekiel 36:5Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all [their] heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.Psalm 13:1-2To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?Psalm 74:9-10We see not our signs: [there is] no more any prophet: neither [is there] among us any that knoweth how long.Psalm 80:4O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?Revelation 6:10And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?Micah 7:18Who [is] a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth [in] mercy.Psalm 103:9He will not always chide: neither will he keep [his anger] for ever.Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.Isaiah 64:9Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we [are] all thy people.Deuteronomy 32:16They provoked him to jealousy with strange [gods], with abominations provoked they him to anger.
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