Pour out Your wrath upon them, and let Your burning anger overtake them.
Parallel translations
- WEB Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.
- KJV Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
- NKJV Pour out Your indignation upon them, And let Your wrathful anger take hold of them.
- NASB Pour out Your indignation on them, And may Your burning anger overtake them.
- NLT Pour out your fury on them; consume them with your burning anger.
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Quick answer
David asks God to pour out his indignation and burning anger on his enemies. It calls for divine judgment against unrepentant wickedness.
Overview
David appeals for God's wrath to overtake those who unjustly persecute him. This imprecation entrusts judgment to God rather than to human hands. While severe, it reflects a longing for God's righteousness to prevail, and it reminds us that the wrath we deserve was poured out on Christ at the cross, the only refuge from coming judgment.
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- Ps 79:6Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,
- Hos 5:10The princes of Judah are like those who move boundary stones; I will pour out My fury upon them like water.
- Rev 16:1Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go, pour out on the earth the seven bowls of God’s wrath.”
- Luke 21:22For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.
- Exod 15:15Then the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed; trembling will seize the leaders of Moab; those who dwell in Canaan will melt away,
- 1 Th 2:15–16who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,
- Deut 31:17On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’
- Deut 28:15–68If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
- Deut 29:18–28Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,
- Zech 1:6But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”
- Isa 13:8Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their faces flushed with fear.
- Lev 26:14–46If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,
- Matt 23:35–37And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
- Deut 32:20–26He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation—children of unfaithfulness.
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