Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
How long, O LORD? will thou be angry forever? Shall thy 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?
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.
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 reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are round about us. 5 How long, O LORD? will thou be angry forever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire? 6 Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that do not know thee, and upon the kingdoms that do not call upon thy name.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 89:46
How long, O LORD? Will thou hide thyself forever? Shall thy wrath burn like fire?
Psalm 74:1
O God, why have thou cast off forever? Why does thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
Psalm 85:5
Will thou be angry with us forever? Will thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
Deuteronomy 29:20
LORD will not pardon him, but then the anger of LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lay upon him, and LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.
Zephaniah 3:8
Therefore wait ye for me, says LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey. For my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them my indignation, even all my fierce anger. For all the
Psalm 74:9-10
We do not see our signs. There is no more any prophet, nor is there among us he who knows how long.
Psalm 80:4
O LORD God of hosts, how long will thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
Ezekiel 36:5
therefore thus says lord LORD: Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, who have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, wit
Deuteronomy 32:16
They moved him to jealousy 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 Sheol, and devours the earth with its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Psalm 13:1-2
How long, O LORD? Will thou forget me forever? How long will thou hide thy face from me?
Psalm 103:9
He will not always chide, nor will he keep [it] forever.
Isaiah 64:9
Be not angry very severely, O LORD, nor remember iniquity forever. Behold, look, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
Micah 7:18
Who is a God like to thee, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
Zephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of LORD's wrath, but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy. For he will make an end, yea, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in
Revelation 6:10
And they cried out in a great voice, saying, Master, Holy and True, how long do thou not judge and avenge our blood from those who dwell on the earth?