Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
Parallel translations
- WEB You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations in anger.
- BSB You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.
- NKJV You marched through the land in indignation; You trampled the nations in anger.
- NASB In indignation You marched through the earth; In anger You trampled the nations.
- NLT You marched across the land in anger and trampled the nations in your fury.
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Quick answer
God marches through the earth in indignation, threshing the nations in His anger. It portrays God's righteous judgment trampling down the wicked nations.
Overview
Like a farmer threshing grain, God treads down the nations in wrath, a vivid picture of decisive judgment. His march through the land conveys unstoppable purpose against evil. This judgment, however fearsome, is the necessary outworking of God's holiness against wickedness, and it serves the deliverance of His people described in the next verse.
Cross-references & the web
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- Jer 51:33For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
- Mic 4:12–13But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.
- Neh 9:22–24Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
- Isa 41:15Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
- Amos 1:3Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
- Acts 13:19And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
- Ps 78:55He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
- Num 21:23–35And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
- Ps 44:1–3We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
- Josh 6:1–12Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
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