Psalms 79:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Do not keep in mind against us the sins of our fathers; let your mercy come to us quickly, for we have been made very low.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 142:6 : 6 Give ear to my cry, for I am made very low: take me out of the hands of my haters, for they are stronger than I.
  • Isa 64:9 : 9 Your holy towns have become a waste, Zion has become a waste, Jerusalem is a mass of broken walls.
  • Ps 116:6 : 6 The Lord keeps the simple; I was made low, and he was my saviour.
  • Deut 28:43 : 43 The man from a strange land who is living among you will be lifted up higher and higher over you, while you go down lower and lower.
  • Ps 21:3 : 3 For you go before him with the blessings of good things: you put a crown of fair gold on his head.
  • Ps 25:7 : 7 Do not keep in mind my sins when I was young, or my wrongdoing: let your memory of me be full of mercy, O Lord, because of your righteousness.
  • Ps 69:16-17 : 16 Give an answer to my words, O Lord; for your mercy is good: be turned to me, because of your great pity. 17 Let not your face be covered from your servant, for I am in trouble; quickly give me an answer.
  • Ps 106:43 : 43 Again and again he made them free; but their hearts were turned against his purpose, and they were overcome by their sins.
  • 1 Kgs 17:18 : 18 And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, O man of God? have you come to put God in mind of my sin, and to put my son to death?
  • Gen 15:16 : 16 And in the fourth generation they will come back here; for at present the sin of the Amorite is not full.
  • Exod 32:34 : 34 But now, go, take the people into that place of which I have given you word; see, my angel will go before you: but when the time of my judging has come, I will send punishment on them for their sin.
  • Ezek 2:3 : 3 And he said to me, Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to an uncontrolled nation which has gone against me: they and their fathers have been sinners against me even to this very day.
  • Dan 9:16 : 16 O Lord, because of your righteousness, let your wrath and your passion be turned away from your town Jerusalem, your holy mountain: because, through our sins and the evil-doing of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a cause of shame to all who are round about us.
  • Hos 8:13 : 13 He gives the offerings of his lovers, and takes the flesh for food; but the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep in mind their evil-doing and give them the punishment of their sins; they will go back to Egypt.
  • Hos 9:9 : 9 They have gone deep in evil as in the days of Gibeah; he will keep in mind their wrongdoing, he will give them punishment for their sins.
  • Matt 23:32-36 : 32 Make full, then, the measure of your fathers. 33 You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell? 34 For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town; 35 So that on you may come all the blood of the upright on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you put to death between the Temple and the altar. 36 Truly I say to you, All these things will come on this generation.
  • Rev 18:5 : 5 For her sins have gone up even to heaven, and God has taken note of her evil-doing.
  • Ps 130:3 : 3 O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?

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