Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
Parallel translations
- WEB Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.
- BSB Pour out Your wrath upon them, and let Your burning anger overtake 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.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 79:6Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
- Hos 5:10The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
- Rev 16:1And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
- Luke 21:22For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
- Exod 15:15Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
- 1 Th 2:15–16Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
- Deut 31:17Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?
- Deut 28:15–68But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
- Deut 29:18–28Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
- Zech 1:6But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
- Isa 13:8And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
- Lev 26:14–46But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
- Matt 23:35–37That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
- Deut 32:20–26And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.
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