Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
Parallel translations
- WEB You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity 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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Quick answer
God will blot out the descendants and posterity of his enemies from the earth. The judgment reaches to the complete end of their line.
Overview
The destruction of the enemies' offspring conveys the totality and finality of God's judgment in covenantal terms, the opposite of the enduring blessing promised to the king's line. This is the language of decisive defeat for those set against God. It points to the ultimate and complete overthrow of evil under the reign of Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Ps 37:28For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
- 1 Kgs 13:34And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.
- Ps 109:13Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
- Isa 14:20Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
- Job 20:28The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
- Mal 4:1For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
- Job 18:16–19His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
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