Psalms 79:5
79:5 How long will this go on, O Lord? 1
Will you stay angry forever?
How long will your rage 2 burn like fire?
Deuteronomy 29:20
29:20 The
Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger
3 will rage
4 against that man; all the curses
5 written in this scroll will fall upon him
6 and the
Lord will obliterate his name from memory.
7
1 tn Heb “How long, O Lord?”
2 tn Or “jealous anger.”
3 tn Heb “the wrath of the Lord and his zeal.” The expression is a hendiadys, a figure in which the second noun becomes adjectival to the first.
4 tn Heb “smoke,” or “smolder.”
5 tn Heb “the entire oath.”
6 tn Or “will lie in wait against him.”
7 tn Heb “blot out his name from under the sky.”