Parallel Verses

Amplified


How long, O Lord? Will You be angry forever?
Will Your jealousy [which cannot endure a divided allegiance] burn like fire?

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?

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 an object of taunting to our neighbors [because of our humiliation],
A derision and mockery to those who encircle us.
5 
How long, O Lord? Will You be angry forever?
Will Your jealousy [which cannot endure a divided allegiance] burn like fire?
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Pour out Your wrath on the [Gentile] nations that do not know You,
And on the kingdoms that do not call on 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

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 will not be willing to forgive him, but then 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; the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven.

Zephaniah 3:8


“Therefore [you of the godly remnant of Judah, patiently] wait for Me,” declares the Lord,
“[Wait] for the day when I rise up as a witness [against the nations].
For it is My decision and My right to gather the nations,
To assemble kingdoms,
To pour out on them My indignation,
All [the heat of] My burning anger;
For [in that day] all the earth shall be consumed
By the fire of My zeal.

Psalm 74:9-10


We do not see our symbols;
There is no longer any prophet [to guide us],
Nor does any among us know for how long.

Psalm 80:4


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

Ezekiel 36:5

therefore thus says the Lord God, “Most certainly in the fire of My jealousy (love for that which is Mine) 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 uttermost contempt, so that they might empty it out [and possess it] as prey.”

Deuteronomy 32:16


“They provoked Him to jealousy with strange gods [by denying Him the honor and loyalty that is rightfully and uniquely His];
And with repulsive acts they provoked Him to anger.

Deuteronomy 32:22


‘For a fire is kindled by My anger,
And it burns to the depths of Sheol (the place of the dead, the nether world),
It devours the earth with its yield,
And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Psalm 13:1-2

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,
Do not remember our wickedness [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing] forever.
Now look, consider, for we are all Your people.

Micah 7:18


Who is a God like You, who forgives wickedness
And passes over the rebellious acts of the remnant of His possession?
He does not retain His anger forever,
Because He [constantly] delights in mercy and lovingkindness.

Zephaniah 1:18


Neither their silver nor their gold
Will be able to rescue them
On the day of the Lord’s indignation and wrath.
And the whole earth will be consumed
In the fire of His jealous wrath,
For He shall make a full and complete end,
Indeed a terrifying one,
Of all the inhabitants of the earth.

Revelation 6:10

They cried in a loud voice, saying, “O Lord, holy and true, how long now before You will sit in judgment and avenge our blood on those [unregenerate ones] who dwell on the earth?”

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