In Your anger, Pursue and destroy them 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.
- KJV Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
- BSB You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O 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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Cross-references · 11
- Ps 8:3When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
- Jer 10:11“You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.’”
- Ps 115:16The heavens are the heavens of Yahweh; but the earth has he given to the children of men.
- Lam 3:43“You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.
- Deut 25:19Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky. You shall not forget.
- Ps 73:15If I had said, “I will speak thus”; behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
- Isa 66:1Yahweh says, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest?
- Deut 29:20Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
- Ps 35:6Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh’s angel pursuing them.
- Deut 7:24He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under the sky. No one will be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.
- 2 Kgs 14:27Yahweh didn’t say that he would blot out the name of Israel from under the sky; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
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