Psalms 79:5-7

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?

79:6 Pour out your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you, ³ 

on the kingdoms that do not pray to you! ⁴ 

79:7 For they have devoured Jacob

and destroyed his home.

[79:5]  ¹ tn Heb “How long, O Lord?”

[79:5]  ² tn Or “jealous anger.”

[79:6]  ³ tn Heb “which do not know you.” Here the Hebrew term “know” means “acknowledge the authority of.”

[79:6]  ⁴ sn The kingdoms that do not pray to you. The people of these kingdoms pray to other gods, not the Lord, because they do not recognize his authority over them.