A moment in scripture
Psalms 79:5
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How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
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The surrounding passage
- Psalms 79:3
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
- Psalms 79:4
We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
- Psalms 79:6
Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
- Psalms 79:7
For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.