Psalms 79:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

Navigate

Chapter 79

⁶Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.

Psalms 79:6 —

My Notes

Notes are saved on this device.

← Psalms 79:5 Psalms 79:7 →

Original word meaning

— of 7

Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.

Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 10:25
Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
2 Thessalonians 1:8
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
Psalms 14:4
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
Psalms 53:4
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
Psalms 69:24
Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

Topics

Adultery Blind Blindness Disease Gentiles Godlessness Gods Groves

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-13)

The petitions here put up to God are very suitable to the present distresses of the church, and they have pleas to enforce them, interwoven with them, taken mostly from God’s honour. I. They pray that God would so turn away his anger from them as to turn it upon those that persecuted and abused them (Ps. 79:6): “ Pour out thy wrath, the full vials of it, upon the heathen; let them wring out the dr…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6-7. (Compare Jr 10:25). Though we deserve much, do not the heathen deserve more for their violence to us (Jr 51:3-5; Zec 1:14)? The singular denotes the chief power, and the use of the plural indicates the combined confederates. called upon--or, “by” thy name--proclaimed Thy attributes and professed allegiance (Is 12:4; Ac 2:21).