Pour out Your indignation upon them, And let Your wrathful anger take hold of 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.
- BSB Pour out Your wrath upon them, and let Your burning anger overtake 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 don’t know you; on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name;
- Hos 5:10The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.
- Rev 16:1I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!”
- Luke 21:22For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
- Exod 15:15Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.
- 1 Th 2:15–16who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn’t please 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 come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’
- Deut 28:15–68But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you, and overtake you.
- Deut 29:18–28lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;
- Zech 1:6But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’”
- Isa 13:8They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.
- Lev 26:14–46“‘But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments;
- Matt 23:35–37that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.
- Deut 32:20–26He said, “I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.
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