Psalm 79:5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁵ How long, O Lord? Wilt thou be angry for ever? Will thy jealous wrath burn like fire?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ How long, LORD? Wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ How long, O Lord? Will You be angry forever? Shall Your jealousy [which cannot endure a divided allegiance] burn like fire?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

Common English Bible

⁵ How long will you rage, LORD? Forever? How long will your anger burn like fire?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ O Lord, God of hosts, how long will you be angry over the prayer of your servant?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant?

Psalm 79:5 Cross References

Psalm 103:9

He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger for ever.

Psalm 6:4

Turn, O Lord, save my life; deliver me for the sake of thy steadfast love.

Psalm 74:1

O God, why dost thou cast us off for ever? Why does thy anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

Psalm 80:4

O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry with thy people's prayers?

Psalm 80:5

Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in full measure.

Psalm 85:5

Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? Wilt thou prolong thy anger to all generations?

Psalm 89:46

How long, O Lord? Wilt thou hide thyself for ever? How long will thy wrath burn like fire?

Psalm 89:47

Remember, O Lord, what the measure of life is, for what vanity thou hast created all the sons of men!

Isaiah 64:9

Be not exceedingly angry, O Lord, and remember not iniquity for ever. Behold, consider, we are all thy people.

Lamentations 5:22

Or hast thou utterly rejected us? Art thou exceedingly angry with us?

Ezekiel 36:5

therefore thus says the Lord God: I speak in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might possess it and plunder it.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like thee, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger for ever because he delights in steadfast love.

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of the Lord. In the fire of his jealous wrath, all the earth shall be consumed; for a full, yea, sudden end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.

Zephaniah 3:8

“Therefore wait for me,” says the Lord, “for the day when I arise as a witness. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all the heat of my anger; for in the fire of my jealous wrath all the earth shall be consumed.

Zechariah 1:12

Then the angel of the Lord said, ‘O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou have no mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these seventy years?’

Deuteronomy 29:20

The Lord would not pardon him, but rather the anger of the Lord and his jealousy would smoke against that man, and the curses written in this book would settle upon him, and the Lord would blot out his name from under heaven.

Deuteronomy 32:16

They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominable practices they provoked him to anger.

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire is kindled by my anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Revelation 6:10

they cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before thou wilt judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell upon the earth?”