You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from among the children of men.
Parallel translations
- KJV Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
- BSB You will wipe their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from the sons of men.
- NKJV Their offspring You shall destroy from the earth, And their descendants from among the sons of men.
- NASB You will eliminate their descendants from the earth, And their children from among the sons of mankind.
- NLT You will wipe their children from the face of the earth; they will never have descendants.
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Cross-references · 7
- Ps 37:28For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
- 1 Kgs 13:34This thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the surface of the earth.
- Ps 109:13Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
- Isa 14:20You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be named forever.
- Job 20:28The increase of his house shall depart. They shall rush away in the day of his wrath.
- Mal 4:1“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
- Job 18:16–19His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.
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