Psalm 79:8

The Passion Translation

Please, God, don’t hold the sins of our fathers against us. Don’t make us pay for their sins. Hurry to our side, and let your tenderhearted mercy meet us in our need, for we are devastated beyond belief.

Cross References

Isaiah 64:9

Yahweh, don’t be angry with us! Don’t remember our sins again forever! Please look at us; we are your people.

Psalm 142:6

Please listen to my heart’s cry, for I am low and in desperate need of you! Rescue me from all those who persecute me, for I am no match for them.

Psalm 116:6

So I’ve learned from my experience that God protects the vulnerable. For I was broken and brought low, but he answered me and came to my rescue!

Psalm 21:3

Rich blessings overflow with every encounter with you, and you placed a royal crown of gold upon his head.

Revelation 18:5

because her sins are heaped as high as heaven and God has remembered her vileness.

Daniel 9:16

Lord, you have always demonstrated your faithfulness to Israel, so now please turn your fierce anger away from Jerusalem. It belongs to you and sits on the hill where sacrifice is made. All the other nations who live around us despise your city and your people because of the sins of our ancestors and because of our sins also.

Ezekiel 2:3

And I heard him speaking to me, saying, “Son of man, I am sending you to the rebellious sons of Israel who have refused allegiance to me. They and their ancestors have been in revolt against me up to the present day.

Psalm 130:3

Lord, if you measured us and marked us with our sins, who would ever have their prayers answered?

Psalm 106:43

Many times you would have come to rescue them, but they continued in their rebellious ways, choosing to ignore your warnings. Then they sank lower and lower, destroyed by their depravity.

Genesis 15:16

And after the fourth generation, your descendants will return here; for then the sin of the Amorites will be ripe for judgment.”