Psalms 79:5

How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire? How long, Lord? - Wilt thou continue thine anger against us, and suffer us to be insulted, and thyself blasphemed?

Related Commentaries of Psalms 79:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

How long, Lord? - See Psalms 74:1 , note; Psalms 74:10 , note; and Psalms 77:7-9 , notes. This is the language, not of impatience, but of anxi...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy (e) burn like fire? (e) Will you completely consume us for our sins, before you take...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

LXXIX. The Sanctuary Profaned. The Ps. is of the same date as Psalms 74. It does not suit the earlier destruction of the city and the Temple in 586...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

How long... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. Compare ( Psalms 79:5 ) with ( Psalms 79:10 ).
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

5 How long, O Jehovah! wilt thou be wroth for ever? I have already observed that these two expressions, how long and for ever, when jo...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire? How long Lord? wilt thou be angry - ( Psalms 74:10 .) Thine a...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

For the occasion and date of this Ps. see intro. to Psalms 74 . It gives a pathetic picture of the calamities that have fallen upon God's people ( P...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

How long, Lord? — The dominant cry of the Maccabæan age. (See Psalms 74:9 .)
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 79:1-13 THE same national agony which was the theme of Psalms 74:1-23 , forced the sad strains of this psalm from the singer's heart. Ther...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Help Us, O God of Our Salvation” Psalms 79:1-13 It was the period of the Chaldean invasion. This cry of horror went forth from the heart of th...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This is a cry of distress. The conditions described are those of overwhelming national calamity. The country and the city of God are overrun and spoi...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

This forms a sweet prayer. The Holy Ghost puts a number of those how longs in the heart of the earliest praying believer. The kingdom of God is taken...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

How long, Lord, wilt thou be angry? for ever ?.... That is, how long wilt thou be angry? shall it be for ever? see Psalms 85:4 , for though what wa...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire? Ver. 5. How long wilt thou be angry? &c. ] Or, how long? wilt...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Mournful Complaints. A psalm of Asaph. 1 O God, the heathen are co...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription .— “A Psalm of Asaph . “See Introduction to Psalms 74 . Occasion .—This Psalm is closely related to the 74th, and bot...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Title. A psalm of Asaph, an elegy over the slain, as is supposed, when Shishak king of Egypt invaded Judea with a great army, besieging the cities...
The Biblical Illustrator

O God, the heathen are come into Thine inheritance. The inhumanity of man and the mixture of good and evil I. Here is a fact revealing the inhu...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THIS is "a psalm of complaint, closely parallel to Psalms 74:1-19 ." (Cheyne), and must, like that psalm, be referred to the time...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Prayer in the Midst of Oppression. A psalm of Asaph, similar in tone and content to Psalms 74, though any special event which might have occasione...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

How long, Lord? Wilt Thou be angry forever? Shall Thy jealousy burn like fire? His zeal in punishing His people for their sins.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 29:20 ; Deuteronomy 32:16 ; Deuteronomy 32:22 ; Ezekiel 36:5 ; Isaiah 64:9 ; Micah 7:18 ; Psalms 13:1 ; Psalms 13:2 ; Psalms 74:...

⁵ How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

Related Commentaries of Psalms 79:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 79:5