Psalms 79:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.

Psalms 79:8 —

Old words in this verse

prevent: — go before, come ahead of.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 64:9
Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
Psalms 116:6
The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.
Psalms 142:6
Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
Psalms 21:3
For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.
Matthew 23:32-36
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities

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. 8)

8. former iniquities--literally, “iniquities of former times.” prevent us--literally, “meet us,” as in Psa 21:3.