Psalm 79:5 {78:5}
Good News Translation
LORD, will you be angry with us forever? Will your anger continue to burn like fire?

New Revised Standard Version
How long, O LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealous wrath burn like fire?

Contemporary English Version
Our LORD, will you keep on being angry? Will your angry feelings keep flaming up like fire?

New American Bible
How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealous anger keep burning like fire?

Douay-Rheims Bible
How long, O Lord, wilt thou be angry for ever: shall thy zeal be kindled like a fire?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

How long, O Lord, wilt thou be angry for ever: shall thy zeal be kindled like a fire?

how long

Psalm 13:1,2 Unto the end, a psalm for David. How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me unto the end? how long dost thou turn away thy face from me? . . .

Psalm 74:1,9,10 Understanding for Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off unto the end: why is thy wrath enkindled against the sheep of thy pasture? . . .

Psalm 80:4 O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant?

Psalm 89:46 How long, O Lord, turnest thou away unto the end? shall thy anger burn like fire?

Revelation 6:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying: How long, O Lord (Holy and True), dost thou not judge and revenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

wilt

Psalm 85:5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever: or wilt thou extend thy wrath from generation to generation?

Psalm 103:9 He will not always be angry: nor will he threaten for ever.

Isaiah 64:9 Be not very angry, O Lord, and remember no longer our iniquity: behold, see we are all thy people.

Micah 7:18 Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest by the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in no more, because he delighteth in mercy.

jealousy

Deuteronomy 29:20 And the Lord should not forgive him: but his wrath and jealousy against that man should be exceedingly enkindled at that time, and all the curses that are written in this volume should light upon him: and the Lord should blot out his name from under heaven,

Deuteronomy 32:16,22 They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations. . . .

Ezekiel 36:5 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: In the fire of my zeal I have spoken of the rest of the nations, and of all Edom, who have taken my land to themselves, for an inheritance with joy, and with all the heart, and with the mind: and have cast it out to lay it waste.

Zephaniah 1:18 Neither shall their silver and their gold be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord: all the land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy destruction of all them that dwell in the land.

Zephaniah 3:8 Wherefore expect me, saith the Lord, in the day of my resurrection that is to come, for my judgment is to assemble the Gentiles, and to gather the kingdoms: and to pour upon them my indignation, all my fierce anger: for with the fire of my jealousy shall all the earth be devoured.

Context
A Prayer for Deliverance
4We are become a reproach to our neighbours: a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. 5How long, O Lord, wilt thou be angry for ever: shall thy zeal be kindled like a fire?6Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that have not known thee: and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:20
And the Lord should not forgive him: but his wrath and jealousy against that man should be exceedingly enkindled at that time, and all the curses that are written in this volume should light upon him: and the Lord should blot out his name from under heaven,

Psalm 13:1
Unto the end, a psalm for David. How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me unto the end? how long dost thou turn away thy face from me?

Psalm 60:1
Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, for the inscription of a title, to David himself, for doctrine, [2] When he set fire to Mesopotamia of Syria and Sobal: and Joab returned and slew of Edom, in the vale of the saltpits, twelve thousand men. [3] O God, thou hast cast us off, and hast destroyed us; thou hast been angry, and hast had mercy on us.

Psalm 74:1
Understanding for Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off unto the end: why is thy wrath enkindled against the sheep of thy pasture?

Psalm 74:9
Our signs we have not seen, there is now no prophet: and he will know us no more.

Psalm 80:4
O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant?

Psalm 85:5
Wilt thou be angry with us for ever: or wilt thou extend thy wrath from generation to generation?

Psalm 89:46
How long, O Lord, turnest thou away unto the end? shall thy anger burn like fire?

Isaiah 6:11
And I said: How long, O Lord? And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land shall be left desolate.

Ezekiel 16:38
And I will judge thee as adulteresses, and they that shed blood are judged: and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.

Ezekiel 36:5
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: In the fire of my zeal I have spoken of the rest of the nations, and of all Edom, who have taken my land to themselves, for an inheritance with joy, and with all the heart, and with the mind: and have cast it out to lay it waste.

Ezekiel 38:19
And I have spoken in my zeal, and in the fire of my anger, that in that day there shall be a great commotion upon the land of Israel:

Daniel 8:13
And I heard one of the saints speaking, and one saint said to another I know not to whom, that was speaking: How long shall be the vision, concerning the continual sacrifice, and the sin of the desolation that is made: and the sanctuary, and the strength be trodden under foot?

Zephaniah 3:8
Wherefore expect me, saith the Lord, in the day of my resurrection that is to come, for my judgment is to assemble the Gentiles, and to gather the kingdoms: and to pour upon them my indignation, all my fierce anger: for with the fire of my jealousy shall all the earth be devoured.

Psalm 79:4
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