Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.
Parallel translations
- WEB Let sinners be consumed out of the earth. Let the wicked be no more. Bless Yahweh, my soul. Praise Yah!
- BSB May sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul. Hallelujah!
- NKJV May sinners be consumed from the earth, And the wicked be no more. Bless the Lord, O my soul! Praise the Lord!
- NASB May sinners be removed from the earth And may the wicked be no more. Bless the Lord, my soul. Praise the Lord!
- NLT Let all sinners vanish from the face of the earth; let the wicked disappear forever. Let all that I am praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!
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Quick answer
He prays that sinners and the wicked be consumed from the earth, then closes by blessing the LORD. The renewal of creation requires the end of evil.
Overview
This sudden prayer against the wicked reflects a longing for creation cleansed of the evil that mars God's good world, not personal vindictiveness. The psalm ends as it began, blessing the LORD, with the first Hallelujah in the Psalter. Final judgment of evil and renewal of all things are accomplished in Christ, who will make all things new.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Ps 103:22Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the LORD, O my soul.
- Rev 19:1–2And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:
- Ps 37:38But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.
- Prov 2:22But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
- Ps 68:1–2Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.
- Ps 106:48Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD.
- Ps 1:4The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
- Ps 59:13Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.
- Ps 101:8I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.
- Ps 105:45That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.
- Ps 103:1–2Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
- Ps 73:27For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
- Judg 5:31So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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