Psalms 85:5
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Will you be angry with us for ever? will you draw out your anger to all generations?
American King James Version (AKJV)
Will you be angry with us for ever? will you draw out your anger to all generations?
American Standard Version (ASV)
Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Will you go on being angry with us for ever? will you keep your wrath against us through all the long generations?
Webster's Revision
Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thy anger to all generations?
World English Bible
Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?
English Revised Version (ERV)
Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
Clarke's Psalms 85:5 Bible Commentary
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.
Barnes's Psalms 85:5 Bible Commentary
Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? - Thine anger is so long continued that it seems as if it would never cease.
Wilt thou draw out thine anger - Wilt thou protract or prolong it? The idea is that of a determined purpose, in retaining his anger, as if his wrath would cease of necessity unless there were such a direct exercise of will.
To all generations - literally, "from generation to generation." That is, - so that not merely the generation which has sinned, and which has brought down these tokens of displeasure, shall suffer, but the next, and the next, and the next, forever. The plea is that the judgment might terminate, and not reach coming generations.
