Psalms 79:6

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“Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,”

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BSBPD

“Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, And upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“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 · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 79:6 — 22 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Psalms 9:16The LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah
  2. Psalms 14:4Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
  3. Psalms 53:4Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon God.
  4. Psalms 69:24Pour out Your wrath upon them, and let Your burning anger overtake them.
  5. Psalms 145:18The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.
  6. Isaiah 13:1This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:
  7. Isaiah 21:1This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.
  8. Isaiah 23:1This is the burden against Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor. Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.
  9. Isaiah 42:25So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.
  10. Isaiah 45:4For the sake of Jacob My servant and Israel My chosen one, I call you by name; I have given you a title of honor, though you have not known Me.
  11. Jeremiah 10:25Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.
  12. Jeremiah 25:29For behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of Hosts.’
  13. Jeremiah 46:1This is the word of the LORD about the nations—the word that came to Jeremiah the prophet
  14. 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.
  15. John 16:3They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.
  16. John 17:25Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.
  17. Acts 17:23For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.
  18. Romans 1:28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
  19. Romans 10:12For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him,
  20. 1 Corinthians 1:2To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:
  21. 2 Thessalonians 1:8in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
  22. Revelation 16:1Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go, pour out on the earth the seven bowls of God’s wrath.”

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