Psalm 79:5
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5 How long, O Lord? Will you be angry forever?
Will your jealous wrath burn like fire?(A)
Psalm 89:46
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46 How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever?
How long will your wrath burn like fire?(A)
Psalm 85:5
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5 Will you be angry with us forever?
Will you prolong your anger to all generations?(A)
Psalm 74:1
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Psalm 74
Plea for Help in Time of National Humiliation
A Maskil of Asaph.
1 O God, why do you cast us off forever?
Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?(A)
Zephaniah 3:8
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Punishment and Conversion of the Nations
8 Therefore wait for me, says the Lord,
for the day when I arise as a witness.
For my decision is to gather nations,
to assemble kingdoms,
to pour out upon them my indignation,
all the heat of my anger,
for in the fire of my passion
all the earth shall be consumed.(A)
Deuteronomy 29:20
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20 the Lord will be unwilling to pardon them, for then the Lord’s anger and passion will smoke against them. All the curses written in this book will descend on them, and the Lord will blot out their names from under heaven.(A)
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Ezekiel 36:5
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5 therefore thus says the Lord God: I am speaking in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who, with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, took my land as their possession, because of its pasture, to plunder it.(A)
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Psalm 80:4
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4 O Lord God of hosts,
how long will you be angry with your people’s prayers?(A)
Psalm 74:9-10
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9 We do not see our emblems;
there is no longer any prophet,
and there is no one among us who knows how long.(A)
10 How long, O God, is the foe to scoff?
Is the enemy to revile your name forever?(B)
Revelation 6:10
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10 they cried out with a loud voice, “Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long will it be before you judge and avenge our blood on the inhabitants of the earth?”(A)
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Zephaniah 1:18
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18 Neither their silver nor their gold
will be able to save them
on the day of the Lord’s wrath;
in the fire of his passion
the whole earth shall be consumed,
for a full, a terrible end
he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.(A)
Micah 7:18
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God’s Compassion and Steadfast Love
18 Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity
and passing over the transgression
of the remnant of his possession?
He does not retain his anger forever
because he delights in showing steadfast love.(A)
Isaiah 64:9
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9 Do not be exceedingly angry, O Lord,
and do not remember iniquity forever.
Now consider, we are all your people.(A)
Psalm 103:9
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9 He will not always accuse,
nor will he keep his anger forever.(A)
Psalm 13:1-2
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Psalm 13
Prayer for Deliverance from Enemies
To the leader. A Psalm of David.
1 How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?(A)
2 How long must I bear pain[a] in my soul
and have sorrow in my heart all day long?
How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?(B)
Footnotes
- 13.2 Syr: Heb hold counsels
Deuteronomy 32:22
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22 For a fire is kindled by my anger
and burns to the depths of Sheol;
it devours the earth and its increase
and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.(A)
Deuteronomy 32:16
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16 They made him jealous with strange gods;
with abhorrent things they provoked him.(A)
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