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O Lord, how long will you be angry with us? Forever?
    How long will your jealousy burn like fire?
Pour out your wrath on the nations that refuse to acknowledge you—
    on kingdoms that do not call upon your name.
For they have devoured your people Israel,[a]
    making the land a desolate wilderness.

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Footnotes

  1. 79:7 Hebrew devoured Jacob. See note on 44:4.

How long,(A) Lord? Will you be angry(B) forever?
    How long will your jealousy burn like fire?(C)
Pour out your wrath(D) on the nations
    that do not acknowledge(E) you,
on the kingdoms
    that do not call on your name;(F)
for they have devoured(G) Jacob
    and devastated his homeland.

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