Psalms 79:8

World English Bible (2000)

Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 142:6 : 6 Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than me.
  • Isa 64:9 : 9 Don't be furious, Yahweh, neither remember iniquity forever: see, look, we beg you, we are all your people.
  • Ps 116:6 : 6 Yahweh preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.
  • Deut 28:43 : 43 The foreigner who is in the midst of you shall mount up above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.
  • Ps 21:3 : 3 For you meet him with the blessings of goodness. You set a crown of fine gold on his head.
  • Ps 25:7 : 7 Don't remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness' sake, Yahweh.
  • Ps 69:16-17 : 16 Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me. 17 Don't hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!
  • Ps 106:43 : 43 Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.
  • 1 Kgs 17:18 : 18 She said to Elijah, "What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!"
  • Gen 15:16 : 16 In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full."
  • Exod 32:34 : 34 Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin."
  • Ezek 2:3 : 3 He said to me, Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day.
  • Dan 9:16 : 16 Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.
  • Hos 8:13 : 13 As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; But Yahweh doesn't accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.
  • Hos 9:9 : 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins.
  • Matt 23:32-36 : 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers. 33 You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna? 34 Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city; 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar. 36 Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.
  • Rev 18:5 : 5 for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.
  • Ps 130:3 : 3 If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

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