Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
How long, O Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
New American Standard Bible
Will Your
King James Version
How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
Holman Bible
Will Your jealousy keep burning like fire?
International Standard Version
How long, LORD, will you be angry? Forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
A Conservative Version
How long, O LORD? will thou be angry forever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
American Standard Version
How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
Amplified
How long, O Lord? Will You be angry forever?
Will Your jealousy [which cannot endure a divided allegiance] burn like fire?
Darby Translation
How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
Julia Smith Translation
How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry forever? shall thy jealousy burn as fire?
King James 2000
How long, LORD? will you be angry forever? shall your jealousy burn like fire?
Modern King James verseion
How long, O Jehovah? Will You be angry forever? Shall Your jealousy burn like fire?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
LORD, how long wilt thou be angry? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire forever?
NET Bible
How long will this go on, O Lord? Will you stay angry forever? How long will your rage burn like fire?
New Heart English Bible
How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
The Emphasized Bible
How long, O Yahweh, wilt thou be angry utterly? Shall thy jealousy, burn like fire?
Webster
How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
World English Bible
How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
Youngs Literal Translation
Till when, O Jehovah? art Thou angry for ever? Thy jealousy doth burn as fire.
Themes
Afflictions » Life tested by the lord » Sometimes prolonged
Anger of God » Removal of, should be prayed for
Topics
References
Easton
Morish
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 79:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Faith Amid Confusion
4 We have become a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us. 5 How long, O Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire? 6 Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you, and on [the] kingdoms that do not call on your name,
Names
Cross References
Psalm 89:46
How long, O Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire [forever]?
Psalm 74:1
Why, O God, have you rejected [us] forever? [Why] does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
Psalm 85:5
Will you be angry against us forever? Will you prolong your anger generation after generation?
Deuteronomy 29:20
Yahweh will not be willing to forgive him, for [by then] the anger of Yahweh will smoke, and his passion against that man and all the curses written in this scroll will descend on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under heaven.
Zephaniah 3:8
"Therefore, wait for me"--a declaration of Yahweh-- "for the day of my rising as a witness. For my decision [is] to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out my wrath upon them, all my burning anger. For by the fire of my anger all the land shall be consumed.
Psalm 74:9-10
We do not see our signs, and there is no longer a prophet. No one with us knows how long.
Psalm 80:4
O Yahweh God [of] hosts, {how long will you be angry} against the prayer of your people?
Ezekiel 36:5
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "{Certainly} in the fire of my passion I spoke against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who made my land as possession, because of its pastureland for plunder, for themselves in all of [the] joy of their whole heart [and] in [their] inner disdain."
Deuteronomy 32:16
They made him jealous with strange [gods]; with detestable things they provoked him.
Deuteronomy 32:22
For a fire was kindled by my anger, and it burned {up to the depths of Sheol}, and it devoured [the] earth and its produce, and it set afire the foundation of [the] mountains.
Psalm 13:1-2
How long, O Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
Psalm 103:9
He does not dispute continually, nor keep [his anger] forever.
Isaiah 64:9
You must not be exceedingly angry, Yahweh, and you must not remember iniquity forever! Look! Behold, now! We all [are] your people!
Micah 7:18
Who [is] a God like you, forgiving sin and passing over rebellion for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, for he delights in loyal love.
Zephaniah 1:18
Moreover, their silver and their gold will not be able to save them on the day of the wrath of Yahweh. And in the fire of his zeal, the whole land shall be consumed, for a terrifying end he shall make [for] all the inhabitants of the land.
Revelation 6:10
and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, "{How long}, holy and true Lord, will you not judge and avenge our blood from those who live on the earth?"