Psalm 79:5

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

Cross References

Psalm 103:9

He will not always chide or be contending, neither will He keep His anger forever or hold a grudge.

Psalm 6:4

Return [to my relief], O Lord, deliver my life; save me for the sake of Your steadfast love and mercy.

Psalm 74:1

O GOD, why do You cast us off forever? Why does Your anger burn and smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?

Psalm 80:4

O Lord God of hosts, how long will You be angry with Your people's prayers?

Psalm 80:5

You have fed them with the bread of tears, and You have given them tears to drink in large measure.

Psalm 85:5

Will You be angry with us forever? Will You prolong Your anger [and disfavor] and spread it out to all generations?

Psalm 89:46

How long, O Lord? Will You hide Yourself forever? How long shall Your wrath burn like fire?

Psalm 89:47

O [earnestly] remember how short my time is and what a mere fleeting life mine is. For what emptiness, falsity, futility, and frailty You have created all men!

Isaiah 64:9

Do not be exceedingly angry, O Lord, or [seriously] remember iniquity forever. Behold, consider, we beseech You, we are all Your people.

Lamentations 5:22

Or have You utterly rejected us? Or are You exceedingly angry with us [still]?

Ezekiel 36:5

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Surely in the fire of My hot jealousy have I spoken against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who have given to themselves My land with wholehearted joy and with uttermost contempt, that they might empty it out and possess it for a prey and a spoil.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like You, Who forgives iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He retains not His anger forever, because He delights in mercy and loving-kindness.

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord's indignation and wrath. But the whole earth shall be consumed in the fire of His jealous wrath, for a full, yes, a sudden, end will He make of all the inhabitants of the earth. [Luke 21:35, 36; II Pet. 3:10-13.]

Zephaniah 3:8

Therefore [earnestly] wait for Me, says the Lord, [waiting] for the day when I rise up to the attack [as a witness, accuser, or judge, and a testimony]. For My decision and determination and right it is to gather the nations together, to assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them My indignation, even all [the heat of] My fierce anger; for [in that day] all the earth shall be consumed with the fire of My zeal and jealousy.

Zechariah 1:12

Then the Angel of the Lord said, O Lord of hosts, how long will You not have mercy and lovingkindness for Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against which You have had indignation these seventy years [of the Babylonian captivity]?

Deuteronomy 29:20

The Lord will not pardon him, but then the anger of the Lord and His jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall settle on him; the Lord will blot out his very name from under the heavens.

Deuteronomy 32:16

They provoked Him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations 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 with its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Revelation 6:10

They cried in a loud voice, O [Sovereign] Lord, holy and true, how long now before You will sit in judgment and avenge our blood upon those who dwell on the earth? [Gen. 4:10; Ps. 79:5; Zech. 1:12.]