Verse 5
Psalms 79:5
World English Bible
5
How long, Yahweh?
Will you be angry forever?
Will your jealousy burn like fire?
Original Language Text
hebrew
עַד מָ֣ה יְ֭הוָה תֶּאֱנַ֣ף לָ/נֶ֑צַח תִּבְעַ֥ר כְּמוֹ אֵ֝֗שׁ קִנְאָתֶֽ/ךָ
English Translation
How long, O Lord, will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
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Chapter 79 Context
1
God (Elohim), the nations have come into your inheritance.
They have defiled your holy temple.
They...
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2
They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky,
the flesh of y...
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3
Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem.
There was no one to bury them.
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4
We have become a reproach to our neighbors,
a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
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5
How long, Yahweh?
Will you be angry forever?
Will your jealousy burn like fire?
6
Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you;
on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name...
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7
For they have devoured Jacob,
and destroyed his homeland.
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8
Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us.
Let your tender mercies speedily meet us,
f...
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9
Help us, God (Elohim) of our salvation, for the glory of your name.
Deliver us, and forgive our sins...
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10
Why should the nations say, “Where is their God (Elohim)?”
Let it be known among the nations, before...
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11
Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you.
According to the greatness of your power, preserve...
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12
Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom
their reproach with which they have reproache...
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13
So we, your people and sheep of your pasture,
will give you thanks forever.
We will praise you forev...
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