Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

How long, O Lord? Will You be angry forever?
Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

King James Version

How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

Holman Bible

How long, Yahweh? Will You be angry forever?
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?

Lexham Expanded Bible

How long, O Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will 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.

References

Context Readings

Faith Amid Confusion

4 We have become a disgrace to our neighbors, an object of ridicule and contempt to those around us. 5 How long, O Lord? Will You be angry forever?
Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
6 Pour your fury (anger) on the nations that do not know you, on the kingdoms that have not called you.


Cross References

Psalm 89:46

How long, O Jehovah? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your anger continue to burn like fire?

Psalm 74:1

([Psalm of Asaph]) God, why have you rejected us forever? Why do you smoke with anger against the sheep of your pasture?

Psalm 85:5

Will you be angry with us forever? Will you ever let go of your anger in the generations to come?

Deuteronomy 29:20

Jehovah will never be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of Jehovah and / His jealousy will burn against that man. Every curse which is written in this book will rest on him. Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven.

Zephaniah 3:8

Wait for me, said Jehovah, until the day that I rise up as a witness. I am determined to gather the nations. I will assemble the kingdoms to pour out upon them my indignation, even all my fierce anger! All the earth will be devoured with the fire of my zeal.

Psalm 74:9-10

We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet. There is no one who knows how long.

Psalm 80:4

O Jehovah God, commander of armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

Ezekiel 36:5

'The Lord Jehovah says: 'Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who appropriated my land for themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and with scorn, to drive it out for a prey.''

Deuteronomy 32:16

They made God furious because they worshiped foreign gods and angered him (stirred up his zeal) because they worshiped worthless idols.

Deuteronomy 32:22

My anger has started a fire that will burn into the depths of the grave. It will consume the earth and its crops and set the foundations of the mountains on fire.

Psalm 13:1-2

([Psalm of David]) How long, O Jehovah? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

Psalm 103:9

He will not always chasten, nor will he keep his anger forever.

Isaiah 64:9

Do not be too angry, Jehovah. Do not remember our sin forever. Now look, we are all your people.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like you who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? You do not keep your anger forever, because you delight in loving-kindness (unchanging love).

Zephaniah 1:18

Their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the Day of Jehovah's anger (rage) (wrath). He will devour all the nations by the fire of his zeal! He will exterminate all the inhabitants of the earth!

Revelation 6:10

They cried with a loud voice, saying: How long, O Lord, holy and true, before you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?

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