Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

How long, Yahweh? Will You be angry forever?
Will Your jealousy keep burning like fire?

New American Standard Bible

How long, O Lord? Will You be angry forever?
Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

King James Version

How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

International Standard Version

How long, LORD, will you be angry? Forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

A Conservative Version

How long, O LORD? will thou be angry forever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

American Standard Version

How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

Amplified


How long, O Lord? Will You be angry forever?
Will Your jealousy [which cannot endure a divided allegiance] burn like fire?

Darby Translation

How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

Julia Smith Translation

How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry forever? shall thy jealousy burn as fire?

King James 2000

How long, LORD? will you be angry forever? shall your jealousy burn like fire?

Lexham Expanded Bible

How long, O Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

Modern King James verseion

How long, O Jehovah? Will You be angry forever? Shall Your jealousy burn like fire?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

LORD, how long wilt thou be angry? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire forever?

NET Bible

How long will this go on, O Lord? Will you stay angry forever? How long will your rage burn like fire?

New Heart English Bible

How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

The Emphasized Bible

How long, O Yahweh, wilt thou be angry utterly? Shall thy jealousy, burn like fire?

Webster

How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

World English Bible

How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

Youngs Literal Translation

Till when, O Jehovah? art Thou angry for ever? Thy jealousy doth burn as fire.

References

Context Readings

Faith Amid Confusion

4 We have become an object of reproach
to our neighbors,
a source of mockery and ridicule
to those around us.
5 How long, Yahweh? Will You be angry forever?
Will Your jealousy keep burning like fire?
6 Pour out Your wrath on the nations
that don’t acknowledge You,
on the kingdoms that don’t call on Your name,


Cross References

Psalm 89:46

How long, Lord? Will You hide Yourself forever?
Will Your anger keep burning like fire?

Psalm 74:1

A Maskil of Asaph.Why have You rejected us forever, God?
Why does Your anger burn
against the sheep of Your pasture?

Psalm 85:5

Will You be angry with us forever?
Will You prolong Your anger for all generations?

Deuteronomy 29:20

The Lord will not be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that person, and every curse written in this scroll will descend on him. The Lord will blot out his name under heaven,

Zephaniah 3:8

Therefore, wait for Me
this is the Lord’s declaration—
until the day I rise up for plunder.
For My decision is to gather nations,
to assemble kingdoms,
in order to pour out My indignation on them,
all My burning anger;
for the whole earth will be consumed
by the fire of My jealousy.

Psalm 74:9-10

There are no signs for us to see.
There is no longer a prophet.
And none of us knows how long this will last.

Psalm 80:4

Lord God of Hosts,
how long will You be angry
with Your people’s prayers?

Ezekiel 36:5

“This is what the Lord God says: Certainly in My burning zeal I speak against the rest of the nations and all of Edom, who took My land as their own possession with wholehearted rejoicing and utter contempt so that its pastureland became plunder.

Deuteronomy 32:16

They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods;
they enraged Him with detestable practices.

Deuteronomy 32:22

For fire has been kindled because of My anger
and burns to the depths of Sheol;
it devours the land and its produce,
and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

Psalm 13:1-2

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.Lord, how long will You forget me?
Forever?
How long will You hide Your face from me?

Psalm 103:9

He will not always accuse us
or be angry forever.

Isaiah 64:9

Lord, do not be terribly angry
or remember our iniquity forever.
Please look—all of us are Your people!

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like You,
removing iniquity and passing over rebellion
for the remnant of His inheritance?
He does not hold on to His anger forever,
because He delights in faithful love.

Zephaniah 1:18

Their silver and their gold
will not be able to rescue them
on the day of the Lord’s wrath.
The whole earth will be consumed
by the fire of His jealousy.
For He will make a complete,
yes, a horrifying end
of all the inhabitants of the earth.

Revelation 6:10

They cried out with a loud voice: “Lord, the One who is holy and true, how long until You judge and avenge our blood from those who live on the earth?”

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