5 How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
5 How long, Lord? Will you be angry forever? How long will your jealousy burn like fire?
5 How long, O Lord? Will you be angry forever? 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, 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?
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 79:5
Commentary on Psalm 79:1-5
(Read Psalm 79:1-5)
God is complained to: whither should children go but to a Father able and willing to help them? See what a change sin made in the holy city, when the heathen were suffered to pour in upon them. God's own people defiled it by their sins, therefore he suffered their enemies to defile it by their insolence. They desired that God would be reconciled. Those who desire God's favour as better than life, cannot but dread his wrath as worse than death. In every affliction we should first beseech the Lord to cleanse away the guilt of our sins; then he will visit us with his tender mercies.