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 reproach to our neighbors,
A scoffing and derision to those around us.
5 How long, O Lord? Will You be angry forever?
Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
6 Pour out Your wrath upon the nations which do not know You,
And upon the kingdoms which do not call upon Your name.


Cross References

Psalm 89:46

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

Psalm 74:1

A Maskil of Asaph.
O God, why have You rejected us forever?
Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?

Psalm 85:5

Will You be angry with us forever?
Will You prolong Your anger to all generations?

Deuteronomy 29:20

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

Zephaniah 3:8

“Therefore wait for Me,” declares the Lord,
“For the day when I rise up as a witness.
Indeed, My decision is to gather nations,
To assemble kingdoms,
To pour out on them My indignation,
All My burning anger;
For all the earth will be devoured
By the fire of My zeal.

Psalm 74:9-10

We do not see our signs;
There is no longer any prophet,
Nor is there any among us who knows how long.

Psalm 80:4

O Lord God of hosts,
How long will You be angry with the prayer of Your people?

Ezekiel 36:5

therefore thus says the Lord God, “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 of soul, to drive it out for a prey.”

Deuteronomy 32:16

They made Him jealous with strange gods;
With abominations they provoked Him to anger.

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire is kindled in My anger,
And burns to the lowest part of Sheol,
And consumes the earth with its yield,
And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Psalm 13:1-2

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever?
How long will You hide Your face from me?

Psalm 103:9

He will not always strive with us,
Nor will He keep His anger forever.

Isaiah 64:9

Do not be angry beyond measure, O Lord,
Nor remember iniquity forever;
Behold, look now, all of us are Your people.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity
And passes over the rebellious act of the remnant of His possession?
He does not retain His anger forever,
Because He delights in unchanging love.

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold
Will be able to deliver them
On the day of the Lord’s wrath;
And all the earth will be devoured
In the fire of His jealousy,
For He will make a complete end,
Indeed a terrifying one,
Of all the inhabitants of the earth.

Revelation 6:10

and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, will You refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

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