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Will you be angry forever?</span><br /><span class="indent">Will your jealousy burn like fire?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/79-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Pour out your anger on the nations</span><br /><span class="indent">that do not know you,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and on the kingdoms</span><br /><span class="indent">that do not call upon your name!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/79-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For they have devoured Jacob</span><br /><span class="indent">and laid waste his habitation.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/79-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Do not remember against us our former iniquities;<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or the iniquities of former generations">a</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">let your compassion come speedily to meet us,</span><br /><span class="indent">for we are brought very low.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/79-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Help us, O God of our salvation,</span><br /><span class="indent">for the glory of your name;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">deliver us, and atone for our sins,</span><br /><span class="indent">for your name’s sake!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/79-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Why should the nations say,</span><br /><span class="indent">“Where is their God?”</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants</span><br /><span class="indent">be known among the nations before our eyes!</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/79-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Let the groans of the prisoners come before you;</span><br /><span class="indent">according to your great power, preserve those doomed to die!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/79-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Return sevenfold into the lap of our neighbors</span><br /><span class="indent">the taunts with which they have taunted you, O Lord!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/79-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But we your people, the sheep of your pasture,</span><br /><span class="indent">will give thanks to you forever;</span><br /><span class="indent">from generation to generation we will recount your praise.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> Or <i>the iniquities of former generations</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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