Psalm 79:5

Translations

Modern

How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

Traditional

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

Literal

Until when, O YHWH? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

Latin

Usquequo, Domine, irasceris in finem? accendetur velut ignis zelus tuus?

Original

Hebrew

English

How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

Notes

Psalms 79:5–8

The intensity of God’s judgment surprises the people; they cry out in despair for compassion, forgiveness, and relief. Verse 6–7 are nearly identical to Jeremiah 10:25.

Psalms 79:1–13

This lament describes the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC. Israel’s early history of rebellion, described in Psalm 78, angered God. As a result, Zion was destroyed. The temple was defiled, and the bodies of the dead lay across the land.

The psalmist then prays for forgiveness and rescue (Psalm 79:8–9) and asks God to repay the nation's enemies (Psalm 79:12–13). Other psalms lamenting the exile include Psalms 42–44, 102, 107, 126, and 137.

Theme notes and profiles

God’s Anger Questions and Doubt

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How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?
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Will You be angry with us forever? Will You draw out Your anger to all generations?
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Therefore 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 will be consumed by the fire of My jealousy.
Deuteronomy 29:20
The 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
Psalm 74:9–10
There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last.
Psalm 13:1–2
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
Ezekiel 36:5
Therefore 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 contempt, so that its pastureland became plunder.
Psalm 80:4
O LORD God of Hosts, how long will Your anger smolder against the prayers of Your people?
Zephaniah 1:18
Neither 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 the earth.
Isaiah 64:9
Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!
Micah 7:18
Who 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?

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