You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.
Parallel translations
- WEB You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.
- KJV Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
- NKJV In Your anger, Pursue and destroy them From under the heavens of the Lord.
- NASB You will pursue them in anger and eliminate them From under the heavens of the Lord!
- NLT Chase them down in your anger, destroying them beneath the Lord’s heavens.
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Quick answer
He prays that God will pursue and destroy his enemies from under heaven.
Overview
The chapter's final verse asks God to pursue the wicked to their end. It closes the lament by committing final judgment wholly to the Lord. While such imprecation is honest before God, it points forward to the cross, where Christ bore the curse for sinners and taught His people to entrust justice to God (Gal. 3:13; Rom. 12:19).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Ps 8:3When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—
- Jer 10:11Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.”
- Ps 115:16The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth He has given to mankind.
- Lam 3:43You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.
- Deut 25:19When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
- Ps 73:15If I had said, “I will speak this way,” then I would have betrayed Your children.
- Isa 66:1This is what the LORD says: “Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me? Or where will My place of repose be?
- Deut 29:20The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
- Ps 35:6May their path be dark and slick, as the angel of the LORD pursues.
- Deut 7:24He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them.
- 2 Kgs 14:27and since the LORD had said that He would not blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Jehoash.
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