Psalms 79:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?”
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“How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?”
King James Version · Public Domain“How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Till when, O Jehovah? art Thou angry for ever? Thy jealousy doth burn as fire.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 79:5 — 21 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 29:20The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
- Deuteronomy 32:16They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
- Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.
- Psalms 6:4Turn, O LORD, and deliver my soul; save me because of Your loving devotion.
- Psalms 13:1How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
- Psalms 74:1Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
- Psalms 74:9There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last.
- Psalms 80:4O LORD God of Hosts, how long will Your anger smolder against the prayers of Your people?
- Psalms 80:5You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
- Psalms 85:5Will You be angry with us forever? Will You draw out Your anger to all generations?
- Psalms 89:46How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?
- Psalms 89:47Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
- Psalms 103:9He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever.
- Isaiah 64:9Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!
- Lamentations 5:22unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.
- Ezekiel 36:5Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Surely in My burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who took My land as their own possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, so that its pastureland became plunder.
- Micah 7:18Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
- Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on the earth.
- Zephaniah 3:8Therefore wait for Me,” declares the LORD, “until the day I rise to testify. For My decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them My indignation— all My burning anger. For all the earth will be consumed by the fire of My jealousy.
- Zechariah 1:12Then the angel of the LORD said, “How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?”
- Revelation 6:10And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You avenge our blood and judge those who dwell upon the earth?”
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