Psalms 85:5

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Will you go on being angry with us for ever? will you keep your wrath against us through all the long generations?

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  • Ps 79:5 : 5 How long, O Lord? will you be angry for ever? will your wrath go on burning like fire?
  • Ps 80:4 : 4 O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?
  • Ps 74:1 : 1 <Maschil. Of Asaph.> Of God, why have you put us away from you for ever? why is the fire of your wrath smoking against the sheep who are your care?
  • Ps 77:9 : 9 Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.)
  • Ps 89:46 : 46 How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire?
  • Isa 64:9-9 : 9 Your holy towns have become a waste, Zion has become a waste, Jerusalem is a mass of broken walls. 10 Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers gave praise to you, is burned with fire; and all the things of our desire have come to destruction. 11 In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord? will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment? 12 []
  • Mic 7:18 : 18 Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.
  • Luke 21:24 : 24 And they will be put to death with the sword, and will be taken as prisoners into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be crushed under the feet of the Gentiles, till the times of the Gentiles are complete.
  • Rev 18:21-23 : 21 And a strong angel took up a stone like the great stone with which grain is crushed, and sent it into the sea, saying, So, with a great fall, will Babylon, the great town, come to destruction, and will not be seen any more at all. 22 And the voice of players and makers of music will never again be sounding in you: and no worker, expert in art, will ever again be living in you; and there will be no sound of the crushing of grain any more at all in you; 23 And never again will the shining of lights be seen in you; and the voice of the newly-married man and the bride will never again be sounding in you: for your traders were the lords of the earth, and by your evil powers were all the nations turned out of the right way.

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  • Ps 85:3-4
    2 verses
    85%

    3 You were no longer angry: you were turned from the heat of your wrath.

    4 Come back to us, O God of our salvation, and be angry with us no longer.

  • 5 How long, O Lord? will you be angry for ever? will your wrath go on burning like fire?

  • Ps 80:3-4
    2 verses
    81%

    3 Take us back again, O God; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.

    4 O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?

  • Ps 85:6-7
    2 verses
    81%

    6 Will you not give us life again, so that your people may be glad in you?

    7 Let us see your mercy, O Lord, and give us your salvation.

  • 5 Will he be angry for ever? will he keep his wrath to the end? These things you have said, and have done evil and have had your way.

  • Lam 5:20-22
    3 verses
    78%

    20 Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?

    21 Make us come back to you, O Lord, and let us be turned; make our days new again as in the past.

    22 But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.

  • Ps 77:7-9
    3 verses
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    7 Will the Lord put me away for ever? will he be kind no longer?

    8 Is his mercy quite gone for ever? has his word come to nothing?

    9 Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.)

  • 46 How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire?

  • 1 <Maschil. Of Asaph.> Of God, why have you put us away from you for ever? why is the fire of your wrath smoking against the sheep who are your care?

  • 9 His feeling will no longer be bitter; he will not keep his wrath for ever.

  • 7 We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath.

  • 9 Your holy towns have become a waste, Zion has become a waste, Jerusalem is a mass of broken walls.

  • 4 But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?

  • 11 Who has knowledge of the power of your wrath, or who takes note of the weight of your passion?

  • Lam 3:42-43
    2 verses
    74%

    42 We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.

    43 Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;

  • 1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Shushan-eduth. Michtam. Of David. For teaching. When he was fighting against Aram-naharaim and Aramzobah, when Joab came back, and put twelve thousand of the Edomites to death, in the Valley of Salt.> God, you have put us away from you, you have sent us in all directions, you have been angry; O be turned to us again.

  • Ps 90:13-15
    3 verses
    73%

    13 Come back, O Lord; how long? let your purpose for your servants be changed.

    14 In the morning give us your mercy in full measure; so that we may have joy and delight all our days.

    15 Make us glad in reward for the days of our sorrow, and for the years in which we have seen evil.

  • 5 For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.

  • 10 O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?

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  • 14 Are we again to go against your orders, taking wives from among the people who do these disgusting things? would you not be angry with us till our destruction was complete, till there was not one who got away safe?

  • 7 By evil-doing they will not get free from punishment. In wrath, O God, let the peoples be made low.

  • 16 For I will not give punishment for ever, or be angry without end: for from me breath goes out; and I it was who made the souls.

  • 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me?

  • 13 So we your people, and the sheep of your flock, will give you glory for ever: we will go on praising you through all generations.

  • 18 So will we not be turned back from you; keep us in life, and we will give praise to your name.

  • 9 Who may say that God will not be turned, changing his purpose and turning away from his burning wrath, so that destruction may not overtake us?

  • 5 For his wrath is only for a minute; in his grace there is life; weeping may be for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

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    5 Then will his angry words come to their ears, and by his wrath they will be troubled:

  • 38 But he, being full of pity, has forgiveness for sin, and does not put an end to man: frequently turning back his wrath, and not being violently angry.

  • 9 For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.

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    1 <To the chief music-maker on corded instruments, on the Sheminith. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, do not be bitter with me in your wrath; do not send punishment on me in the heat of your passion.

  • 23 Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.

  • 18 Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.

  • 8 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.

  • 7 Take us back again, O God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.

  • 8 Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin.

  • 10 The ... will give you praise; the rest of ...

  • 1 <A Psalm. Of David. To keep in memory.> O Lord, be not bitter with me in your wrath; let not your hand be on me in the heat of your passion.

  • 31 For the Lord does not give a man up for ever.