Psalms 79:5

5 How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? How long will your jealousy burn like fire?

Psalms 79:5 in Other Translations

5 How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

5 How long, O LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

5 O LORD, how long will you be angry with us? Forever? How long will your jealousy burn like fire?

5 How long do we have to put up with this, God? Do you have it in for us for good? Will your smoldering rage never cool down?

5 How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

5 How long, O LORD? Will you remain angry forever? Will your fury continue to burn like fire?

5 How long, Lord? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy keep burning like fire?

5 Lord, how long will you be angry with us? Will it be forever? How long will your jealousy burn like fire?

Psalms 79:5 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 79:5

How long, Lord, wilt thou be angry? for ever?
&c.] That is, how long wilt thou be angry? shall it be for ever? see ( Psalms 85:4 Psalms 85:5 ) , for though what was done, or to be done, as before related, was or will be done by the enemies of the Lord's people, yet by his permission, and as a token of his anger and displeasure against them: at least it might be so understood, both by them and by their enemies; and hence this expostulation,

shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
so jealousy does; its coals are coals of fire, ( Song of Solomon 8:6 ) , there were, at the times referred to, such among the people, who did evil things, and provoked the Lord to jealousy and wrath: see the Apocrypha:

``And there was very great wrath upon Israel.'' (1 Maccabees 1:64)

``When this was done, and they had made a common supplication, they besought the merciful Lord to be reconciled with his servants for ever.'' (2 Maccabees 8:29)

Psalms 79:5 In-Context

3 They have poured out blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.

4 We are objects of contempt to our neighbors, of scorn and derision to those around us.

5 How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? How long will your jealousy burn like fire?

6 Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the kingdoms that do not call on your name;

7 for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.

Cross References

• 1. S Psalms 74:10
• 2. Psalms 74:1; Psalms 85:5
• 3. S Deuteronomy 29:20; Psalms 89:46; Zephaniah 3:8