Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 dwelling place. 8 O remember not our old sins, but have mercy upon us, and that soon; for we are come to great misery. 9 Help us, O God our saviour, for the glory of thy name; O deliver us, and forgive us our sins for thy name's sake.
Cross References
Psalm 116:6
The LORD preserveth the simple; I was brought down in misery and he helped me.
Psalm 142:6
Consider my complaint, for I am brought very low. O deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.
Isaiah 64:9
Be not too sore displeased, O LORD, and keep not our offenses too long in thy remembrance: but consider that we all are thy people.
Deuteronomy 28:43
The strangers that are among you shall climb above thee up on high, and thou shalt come down beneath a-low.
Psalm 21:3
For thou shalt prevent him with the blessings of goodness, and shalt set a crown of pure gold upon his head.
Genesis 15:16
and in the fourth generation they shall come hither again, for the wickedness of the Amorites is not yet full."
Exodus 32:34
But go, and bring the people unto the land which I said unto thee, 'Behold, mine angel shall go before thee.' Neverthelater in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them."
1 Kings 17:18
Then said she unto Elijah, "What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? Art thou come unto me, that my sin should be thought on and my son slain?"
Psalm 25:7
O remember not the sins and offenses of my youth; but according to thy mercy think upon me, O LORD, for thy goodness.
Psalm 69:16-17
Hear me, O LORD, for thy loving-kindness is comfortable: turn thee unto me according to the multitude of thy mercies.
Psalm 106:43
Many a time did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their own inventions, and were brought down in their wickedness.
Psalm 130:3
If thou, LORD wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss, O LORD who may abide it?
Ezekiel 2:3
And he said, "Behold, thou son of man: I will send thee to the children of Israel, to those renegades and obstinate people - for they have taken part against me, and are run away from me: both they and their forefathers unto this day.
Daniel 9:16
O LORD, and done wickedly against all thy righteousness: Yet let thy wrathful displeasure be turned away, I beseech thee, from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy hill. And why? For our sins' sake, and for the wickedness of our forefathers is Jerusalem and thy people abhorred, of all them that are about us.
Hosea 8:13
Whereas they do sacrifice, offering the flesh and eating it, the LORD will have no pleasure therein: but will remember their wickedness, and punish their sins. Israel turneth again into Egypt:
Hosea 9:9
They be gone too far, and have destroyed themselves, like as they did afore time at Gibeah. Therefore their wickedness shall be remembered, and their sins punished.
Matthew 23:32-36
Fulfill ye likewise the measure of your fathers:
Revelation 18:5
For her sins are gone up to heaven, and God hath remembered her wickedness.