Psalm 79:6

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Modern

Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,

Traditional

Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.

Literal

Pour out Your wrath toward the nations that have not known You, and upon the kingdoms that have not called on Your name!

Latin

Effunde iram tuam in gentes quæ te non noverunt, et in regna quæ nomen tuum non invocaverunt:

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English

Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,

Notes

Psalms 79:6

The repentant among God’s people ask him to vent his anger not on them but on their wicked and unrepentant enemies.

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 Prayers for Vengeance

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Jeremiah 10:25
Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.
2 Thessalonians 1:8
…in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
Psalm 14:4
Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
Psalm 69:24
Pour out Your wrath upon them, and let Your burning anger overtake them.
Psalm 53:4
Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon God.
Isaiah 45:4–5
For the sake of Jacob My servant and Israel My chosen one, I call you by name; I have given you a title of honor, though you have not known Me.
Romans 1:28
Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
Acts 17:23
For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.
Jeremiah 25:29
For behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of Hosts.’
John 16:3
They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.
Isaiah 23:1–18
This is the burden against Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor. Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.
Romans 10:12–14
For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him,

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