Psalms Chapter 79 verse 6 Holy Bible
Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, And upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name.
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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.
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Pour out thy fury upon the nations that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name:
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Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
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Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
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Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you; On the kingdoms that don't call on your name;
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Pour Thy fury on the nations who have not known Thee, And on kingdoms that have not called in Thy name.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee. It is not the heathen that had never heard of God who are intended, but those who, having heard of him, had refused to "know" him (comp. Exodus 5:2), as was the case with all the nations round about Canaan. And upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy Name. Now that we are punished, go on to punish those who have persecuted us, and who are at least as guilty as ourselves. "The prayer rests," as Hengstenberg remarks, "upon what God does constantly. Judgment begins at the house of God; but it proceeds thence to those whom God has employed as the instrument of his punishment. The storm of the wrath of God always remains to fall at last upon the world at enmity with his Church."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6-7) The poet prays in prophetical strain, that the fire of indignation may be turned from Israel and directed against the heathen oppressors, (For the relation to Jeremiah 10:25, see Introduction.)
