Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth;
Parallel translations
- KJV Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
- BSB May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.
- NKJV Let them be continually before the Lord, That He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
- NASB May they be before the Lord continually, So that He may eliminate their memory from the earth;
- NLT May the Lord always remember these sins, and may his name disappear from human memory.
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Cross-references · 10
- Ps 34:16Yahweh’s face is against those who do evil, to cut off their memory from the earth.
- Job 18:17His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.
- Ps 90:8You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
- Ps 51:9Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.
- Ps 109:13Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
- Amos 8:7Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their works.
- Isa 65:15You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you. He will call his servants by another name,
- Jer 2:22For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
- Deut 32:34“Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?
- Hos 7:2They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.
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