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 

[79:5]  ¹ tn Heb “How long, O Lord?”

[79:5]  ² tn Or “jealous anger.”

[29:20]  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.

[29:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “smoke,” or “smolder.”

[29:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “the entire oath.”

[29:20]  ⁶ tn Or “will lie in wait against him.”

[29:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “blot out his name from under the sky.”