Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
Parallel translations
- WEB You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.
- BSB You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O 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).
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- Ps 8:3When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
- Jer 10:11Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
- Ps 115:16The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’s: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
- Lam 3:43Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
- Deut 25:19Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
- Ps 73:15If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
- Isa 66:1Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
- Deut 29:20The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
- Ps 35:6Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.
- Deut 7:24And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
- 2 Kgs 14:27And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
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