Psalms 85 · Verse 5

Psalms 85:5

Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
Psalms 85:5, King James Version

Psalms 85:5 in other translations

BSBWill You be angry with us forever? Will You draw out Your anger to all generations?
WEBWill you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?
ASVWilt thou be angry with us for ever? Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
YLTTo the age art Thou angry against us? Dost Thou draw out Thine anger To generation and generation?
DARBYWilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger from generation to generation?
BBEWill you go on being angry with us for ever? will you keep your wrath against us through all the long generations?
WebsterWilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thy anger to all generations?

What does Psalms 85:5 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 85:4-7

4-7. having still occasion for the anger which is deprecated.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 5 Wilt thou draw out thine anger - We have already suffered much and long; our fathers have suffered, and we have succeeded to their distresses. Draw not out thy anger against us from generation to generation.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 85:1-7

The sense of present afflictions should not do away the remembrance of former mercies. The favour of God is the fountain of happiness to nations, as well as to particular persons. When God forgives sin, he covers it; and when he covers the sin of his people, he covers it all. See what the pardon of sin is. In compassion to us, when Christ our Intercessor has stood before thee, thou hast turned away thine anger. When…

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Psalms 85:5 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הַלְעוֹלָ֥םhal.'o.Lam¿ to foreverH5769
תֶּֽאֱנַף\־te.'e.naf-will you be angryH599
בָּ֑נוּBa.nuwith us
תִּמְשֹׁ֥ךְtim.Shokhwill you prolong?H4900
אַ֝פְּךָ֗'a.pe.khaanger yourH639
לְדֹ֣רle.Dorto a generationH1755
וָדֹֽר\׃va.Dorand a generationH1755

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 85:5

  • Psalms 79:5

    How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

  • Psalms 80:4

    O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

  • Isaiah 64:9-12

    Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Lord? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

  • Psalms 74:1

    Maschil of Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

  • Micah 7:18

    Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.

  • Luke 21:24

    And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

  • Psalms 89:46

    How long, Lord? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?

  • Revelation 18:21-23

    And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

  • Psalms 77:9

    Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
angry.
74:1; 77:9; 79:5; 80:4; 89:46; Isa 64:9-12; Mic 7:18
draw.
Lu 21:24; Re 18:21-23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 85:4

    Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.

  • Psalms 85:5

    Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?

  • Psalms 85:6

    Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?

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Psalms 85:5 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
¿Estarás enojado contra nosotros para siempre? ¿extenderás tu ira de generación en generación?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Ramène-nous, ô Dieu de notre salut, et fais cesser ton indignation contre nous.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Willst du ewiglich wider uns zürnen? Willst du deinen Zorn währen lassen von Geschlecht zu Geschlecht?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Quoniam tu, Domine, suavis et mitis, et multæ misericordiæ omnibus invocantibus te.