Psalms 79:5

King James Version

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

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
How long, O Lord ? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Lord, howe long wilt thou be angrie, for euer? shall thy gelousie burne like fire?

Christian Standard Bible®
How long, Lord? Will you be angry forever?Will your jealousy keep burning like fire?

Hebrew Names Version
How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

Easy-to-Read Version
Lord , will you be angry with us forever? Will your strong feelings continue to burn like a fire?

Amplified Bible
How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy [which cannot endure a divided allegiance] burn like fire?

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

Contemporary English Version
Our Lord , will you keep on being angry? Will your angry feelings keep flaming up like fire?

Complete Jewish Bible
How long, Adonai ? Will you be angry forever? How long will your jealousy burn like fire?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
How long, O LORD, wilt Thou be angry for ever? How long will Thy jealousy burn like fire?

King James Version (1611)
How long, Lord, wilt thou be angry, for euer? shall thy ielousie burne like fire?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
How long, O Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

English Revised Version
How long, O LORD, wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

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

Lexham English Bible
How long, O Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

Literal Translation
Until when, O Jehovah? Will You be angry with us forever? Shall Your jealousy burn like fire?

New Century Version
Lord , how long will this last? Will you be angry forever? How long will your jealousy burn like a fire?

New English Translation
How long will this go on, O Lord ? Will you stay angry forever? How long will your rage burn like fire?

New King James Version
How long, LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

New Living Translation
O Lord , how long will you be angry with us? Forever? How long will your jealousy burn like fire?

New Life Bible
How long, O Lord? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
How long, O Yahweh, wilt thou be angry utterly? Shall thy jealousy, burn like fire?

Douay-Rheims Bible
(78-5) How long, O Lord, wilt thou be angry for ever: shall thy zeal be kindled like a fire?

George Lamsa Translation
How long, O LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy anger burn like fire?

Good News Translation
Lord , will you be angry with us forever? Will your anger continue to burn like fire?

New American Standard Bible
How long, LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
O God, howe long wylt thou be angry? shall thy ielousie burne lyke fire for euer?

New Revised Standard
How long, O Lord ? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealous wrath burn like fire?

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lord, hou longe schalt thou be wrooth in to the ende? schal thi veniaunce be kyndelid as fier?

Young's Literal Translation
Till when, O Jehovah? art Thou angry for ever? Thy jealousy doth burn as fire.

World English Bible
How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

Revised Standard Version
How long, O LORD? Wilt thou be angry for ever? Will thy jealous wrath burn like fire?

Update Bible Version
How long, O Yahweh? will you be angry forever? Shall your jealousy burn like fire?

Webster's Bible Translation
How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

Bible in Basic English
How long, O Lord? will you be angry for ever? will your wrath go on burning like fire?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
LORDE, how longe wilt thou be angrie? shal thy gelousy burne like fyre for euer?

THE MESSAGE
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? If you're going to be angry, be angry with the pagans who care nothing about you, or your rival kingdoms who ignore you. They're the ones who ruined Jacob, who wrecked and looted the place where he lived.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
How long, O Lord ? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

Legacy Standard Bible
How long, O Yahweh? Will You be angry forever?Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

Contextual Overview

¹ O god, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. ² The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. ³ Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them. ⁴ We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. ⁵ How long, Lord ? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

How long: Psalms 13:1, Psalms 13:2, Psalms 74:1, Psalms 74:9, Psalms 74:10, Psalms 80:4, Psalms 89:46, Revelation 6:10

wilt: Psalms 85:5, Psalms 103:9, Isaiah 64:9, Micah 7:18

jealousy: Deuteronomy 29:20, Deuteronomy 32:16, Deuteronomy 32:22, Ezekiel 36:5, Zephaniah 1:18, Zephaniah 3:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 44:18 - anger Esther 1:12 - burned Psalms 38:19 - are lively Psalms 77:7 - and will Psalms 78:58 - moved Psalms 80:16 - burned Psalms 94:3 - Lord Isaiah 30:27 - burning Isaiah 42:25 - he hath poured Isaiah 64:12 - General Jeremiah 3:12 - I will Lamentations 2:3 - he burned Lamentations 5:20 - dost Daniel 8:13 - How Daniel 9:19 - defer Zechariah 1:2 - Lord

Gill's Notes on the Bible

How long, Lord, wilt thou be angry? for ever?.... That is, how long wilt thou be angry? shall it be for ever? see Psalms 85:4, 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)

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

How long, Lord? - See Psalms 74:1, note; Psalms 74:10, note; and Psalms 77:7-9, notes. This is the language, not of impatience, but of anxiety; not of complaining, but of wonder. It is language such as the people of God are often constrained to employ under heavy trials - trials which continue so long that it seems as if they would never end.

Shall thy jealousy, burn like fire? - That is, Shall it continue to burn like fire? Shall it utterly consume us? On the word jealousy, see the notes at Psalms 78:58.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 79:5. How long, Lord? — Wilt thou continue thine anger against us, and suffer us to be insulted, and thyself blasphemed?