You marched through the land in indignation; You trampled the nations in anger.
Parallel translations
- WEB You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations in anger.
- KJV Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
- BSB You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.
- 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 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden. Yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.”
- Mic 4:12–13But they don’t know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.
- Neh 9:22–24Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you allotted according to their portions. So they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
- Isa 41:15Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff.
- Amos 1:3Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron;
- Acts 13:19When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land for an inheritance, for about four hundred fifty years.
- Ps 78:55He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
- Num 21:23–35Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border, but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz. He fought against Israel.
- Ps 44:1–3For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm. We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of old.
- Josh 6:1–12Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.
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