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A Prayer for Deliverance

Psalms 79:5

In 11 translations

BSB
How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
KJV
How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
WEB
How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
ASV
How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
LSV
Until when, O YHWH? Are You angry forever? Your jealousy burns as fire.
YLT
Till when, O Jehovah? art Thou angry for ever? Thy jealousy doth burn as fire.
DBY
How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
DRC78:5
How long, O Lord, wilt thou be angry for ever: shall thy zeal be kindled like a fire?
GNV
Lord, howe long wilt thou be angrie, for euer? shall thy gelousie burne like fire?
JPS
How long, O LORD, wilt Thou be angry for ever? How long will Thy jealousy burn like fire?
LXXE78:5
How long, O Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

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WLC
עַד־מָ֣ה יְ֭הוָה תֶּאֱנַ֣ף לָנֶ֑צַח תִּבְעַ֥ר כְּמוֹ־אֵ֝֗שׁ קִנְאָתֶֽךָ׃
LXX-Br78:5
Ἕως πότε, Κύριε, ὀργισθήσῃ εἰς τέλος; ἐκκαυθήσεται ὡς πῦρ ὁ ζῆλός σου;

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 89:46How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?
  • Psalms 74:1Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
  • Psalms 85:5Will You be angry with us forever? Will You draw out Your anger to all generations?
  • Deuteronomy 29:20The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
  • Zephaniah 3:8Therefore wait for Me,” declares the LORD, “until the day I rise to testify. For My decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them My indignation— all My burning anger. For all the earth…
  • Psalms 74:9–10There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last. How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?
  • Ezekiel 36:5Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Surely in My burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who took My land as their own possession with wholehearted joy and utter…
  • Psalms 13:1–2How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me? How long must I wrestle in my soul, with sorrow in my heart each day? How long will my enemy dominate me?
  • Psalms 80:4O LORD God of Hosts, how long will Your anger smolder against the prayers of Your people?
  • Deuteronomy 32:16They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
  • Micah 7:18Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
  • Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on…
  • Revelation 6:10And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You avenge our blood and judge those who dwell upon the earth?”
  • Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.
  • Isaiah 64:9Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!
  • Psalms 103:9He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever.

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