Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Remember not against us the iniquities of our forefathers; let thy tender mercies speedily come to meet us: for we are brought very low.
New American Standard Bible
Let Your compassion come quickly to
For we are
King James Version
O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
Holman Bible
let Your compassion come to us quickly,
for we have become weak.
International Standard Version
Don't charge us for previous iniquity, but let your compassion come quickly to us, for we have been brought very low.
A Conservative Version
Do not remember against us the iniquities of our forefathers. Let thy tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are brought very low.
American Standard Version
Remember not against us the iniquities of our forefathers: Let thy tender mercies speedily meet us; For we are brought very low.
Amplified
O do not remember against us the sins and guilt of our forefathers.
Let Your compassion and mercy come quickly to meet us,
For we have been brought very low.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou wilt not remember against us former iniquities: thy compassions shall quickly anticipate us, for we were greatly weak:
King James 2000
O remember not against us former iniquities: let your tender mercies speedily precede us: for we are brought very low.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do not remember against us former iniquities; let your mercies meet us quickly because we are brought very low.
Modern King James verseion
O do not remember against us our former sins; let Your tender mercies meet us quickly; for we are brought very low.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O remember not our old sins, but have mercy upon us, and that soon; for we are come to great misery.
NET Bible
Do not hold us accountable for the sins of earlier generations! Quickly send your compassion our way, for we are in serious trouble!
New Heart English Bible
Do not hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.
The Emphasized Bible
Do not remember against us former iniquities, - Haste thee, let thy compassions, come to meet us, For we have been brought very low!
Webster
O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily succor us: for we are brought very low.
World English Bible
Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.
Youngs Literal Translation
Remember not for us the iniquities of forefathers, Haste, let Thy mercies go before us, For we have been very weak.
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 79:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Faith Amid Confusion
7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation. 8 Remember not against us the iniquities of our forefathers; let thy tender mercies speedily come to meet us: for we are brought very low. 9 Help us, O God of our salvation, because of the glory of thy name; and deliver us, and forgive our sins, for thy name's sake.
Cross References
Psalm 116:6
Jehovah keepeth the simple: I was brought low, and he saved me.
Psalm 142:6
Attend unto my cry, for I am brought very low; deliver me from my persecutors, for they are stronger than I.
Isaiah 64:9
Be not wroth very sore, O Jehovah, neither remember iniquity for ever. Behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
Deuteronomy 28:43
The sojourner that is in thy midst shall rise above thee higher and higher, and thou shalt sink down lower and lower.
Psalm 21:3
For thou hast met him with the blessings of goodness; thou hast set a crown of pure gold on his head.
Genesis 15:16
And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
Exodus 32:34
And now go, lead the people whither I have told thee: behold, my Angel shall go before thee; but in the day of my visiting I will visit their sin upon them.
1 Kings 17:18
And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come to me to call mine iniquity to remembrance, and to slay my son?
Psalm 25:7
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions; according to thy loving-kindness remember thou me, for thy goodness' sake, Jehovah.
Psalm 69:16-17
Answer me, O Jehovah; for thy loving-kindness is good: according to the abundance of thy tender mercies, turn toward me;
Psalm 106:43
Often did he deliver them; but as for them they provoked him by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquity.
Psalm 130:3
If thou, Jah, shouldest mark iniquities, Lord, who shall stand?
Ezekiel 2:3
And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to nations that are rebellious, which have rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me unto this very day;
Daniel 9:16
Lord, according to all thy righteousnesses, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain; for because of our sins, and because of the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all round about us.
Hosea 8:13
They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; Jehovah hath no delight in them. Now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
Hosea 9:9
They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
Matthew 23:32-36
and ye, fill ye up the measure of your fathers.
Revelation 18:5
for her sins have been heaped on one another up to the heaven, and God has remembered her unrighteousnesses.