Psalms 79:5

The psalmist asks how long God's anger will burn against them. It is a heartfelt plea for mercy amid prolonged judgment.

Cross-references · 16

• Ps 89:46How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?
• Ps 74:1A Maskil of Asaph. Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
• Ps 85:5Will You be angry with us forever? Will You draw out Your anger to all generations?
• Zeph 3:8Therefore 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.
• Deut 29:20The 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
• Ezek 36:5Therefore 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.
• Ps 74:9–10There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last.
• Ps 80:4O LORD God of Hosts, how long will Your anger smolder against the prayers of Your people?
• Ps 13:1–2For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
• Rev 6:10And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You avenge our blood and judge those who dwell upon the earth?”
• Ps 103:9He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever.
• Deut 32:22For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.
• Mic 7:18Who 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?
• Isa 64:9Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!
• Deut 32:16They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
• Zeph 1:18Neither 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.

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