Bible in Basic English
"How long, O Lord? will you be angry for ever? will your wrath go on burning like fire?"
— Psalms 79:5, Bible in Basic English
“How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?”
“How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire? ”
“How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?”
“How long will this go on, O LORD? Will you stay angry forever? How long will your rage burn like fire?”
“O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant?”
“How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?”
They have given the bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the air, and the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth.
Their blood has been flowing like water round about Jerusalem; there was no one to put them in their last resting-place.
We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.
How long, O Lord? will you be angry for ever? will your wrath go on burning like fire?
Let your wrath be on the nations who have no knowledge of you, and on the kingdoms who have not made prayer to your name.
For they have taken Jacob for their meat, and made waste his house.
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.