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Psalm 79:5-7
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5 [a]How long, O Lord?[b] Will you be angry forever?
    How long will your rage continue to blaze like a fire?
6 [c]Pour out your wrath on the nations
    that refuse to acknowledge you,
on the kingdoms
    that fail to call on your name.[d]
7 For they have devoured Jacob
    and ravaged his homeland.

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  1. Psalm 79:5 The divine justice cannot remain inactive in the case of such wickedness, which calls out for retribution.
  2. Psalm 79:5 How long . . . ?: see note on Ps 6:4. Rage: i.e., a jealous rage (see Ps 119:139; Nah 1:2). Blaze like a fire: see Deut 4:24; 6:15; Zep 1:18; 3:8.
  3. Psalm 79:6 Cited in Jer 10:25. Concerning the call for redress, see note on Ps 5:11.
  4. Psalm 79:6 See notes on Pss 5:11; 35.
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Psalm 79:5-7
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5 How long,(A) Lord? Will you be angry(B) forever?
    How long will your jealousy burn like fire?(C)
6 Pour out your wrath(D) on the nations
    that do not acknowledge(E) you,
on the kingdoms
    that do not call on your name;(F)
7 for they have devoured(G) Jacob
    and devastated his homeland.

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