If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
Parallel translations
- KJV Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
- BSB O God, that You would slay the wicked—away from me, you bloodthirsty men—
- NKJV Oh, that You would slay the wicked, O God! Depart from me, therefore, you bloodthirsty men.
- NASB ¶If only You would put the wicked to death, God; Leave me, you men of bloodshed.
- NLT O God, if only you would destroy the wicked! Get out of my life, you murderers!
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Cross-references · 11
- Ps 5:6You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
- Ps 119:115Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
- Isa 11:4but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
- Ps 9:17The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
- Ps 6:8Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.
- Ps 64:7But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.
- 2 Cor 6:17Therefore “‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
- Ps 55:23But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.
- Ps 94:23He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.
- Matt 25:41Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
- Matt 7:23Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’
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