Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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
Let Your compassion come quickly to
For we are
Cross References
Psalm 116:6
The LORD preserves the simple; when I was brought low, he saved me.
Psalm 142:6
Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low! Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me!
Isaiah 64:9
Be not so terribly angry, O LORD, and remember not iniquity forever. Behold, please look, we are all your people.
Deuteronomy 28:43
The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.
Psalm 21:3
For you meet him with rich blessings; you set a crown of fine gold upon his head.
Genesis 15:16
And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete."
Exodus 32:34
But now go, lead the people to the place about which I have spoken to you; behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them."
1 Kings 17:18
And she said to Elijah, "What have you against me, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to remembrance and to cause the death of my son!"
Psalm 25:7
Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O LORD!
Psalm 69:16-17
Answer me, O LORD, for your steadfast love is good; according to your abundant mercy, turn to me.
Psalm 106:43
Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their purposes and were brought low through their iniquity.
Psalm 130:3
If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
Ezekiel 2:3
And he said to me, "Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day.
Daniel 9:16
"O Lord, according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy hill, because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a byword among all who are around us.
Hosea 8:13
As for my sacrificial offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the LORD does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish 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 punish their sins.
Revelation 18:5
for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.