May sinners be consumed from the earth, And the wicked be no more. Bless the Lord, O my soul! Praise 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!
- KJV 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.
- BSB May sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul. Hallelujah!
- 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 103:22Praise Yahweh, all you works of his, in all places of his dominion. Praise Yahweh, my soul!
- Rev 19:1–2After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God:
- Ps 37:38As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.
- Prov 2:22But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.
- Ps 68:1–2For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song. Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him.
- Ps 106:48Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting! Let all the people say, “Amen.” Praise Yah!
- Ps 1:4The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
- Ps 59:13Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more. Let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of the earth. Selah.
- Ps 101:8Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land; to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh’s city.
- Ps 105:45that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!
- Ps 103:1–2By David. Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name!
- Ps 73:27For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.
- Judg 5:31“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.
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