Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,
Parallel translations
- WEB Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you; on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name;
- KJV Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
- NKJV Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not know You, And on the kingdoms that do not call on Your name.
- NASB Pour out Your wrath upon the nations which do not know You, And upon the kingdoms which do not call upon Your name.
- NLT Pour out your wrath on the nations that refuse to acknowledge you— on kingdoms that do not call upon your name.
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Quick answer
The psalmist asks God to pour out wrath on the nations that reject Him. He appeals for justice against those who defy God.
Overview
The prayer turns to God's judgment on 'the nations that don't know you' and refuse to call on His name. This is not personal vengeance but an appeal for God's righteous justice against those who oppose Him. Paul cites a similar reality, leaving vengeance to God (Romans 12:19), while the gospel also invites the nations to come to know Him and be saved.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 22
- Jer 10:25Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.
- 2 Th 1:8in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
- Ps 14:4Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
- Ps 69:24Pour out Your wrath upon them, and let Your burning anger overtake them.
- Ps 53:4Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon God.
- Isa 45:4–5For the sake of Jacob My servant and Israel My chosen one, I call you by name; I have given you a title of honor, though you have not known Me.
- Rom 1:28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
- Ps 9:16–17The LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah
- Jer 46:1–28This is the word of the LORD about the nations—the word that came to Jeremiah the prophet
- John 16:3They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.
- Isa 13:1–22This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:
- Isa 42:25So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.
- Rev 16:1–21Then 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.”
- Zeph 3:8Therefore wait for Me,” declares the LORD, “until the day I rise to testify. For My decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them My indignation—all My burning anger. For all the earth will be consumed by the fire of My jealousy.
- Jer 25:29For behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of Hosts.’
- Isa 21:1–17This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.
- Ps 145:18The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.
- Acts 17:23For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.
- Rom 10:12–14For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him,
- Isa 23:1–18This is the burden against Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor. Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.
- 1 Cor 1:2To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:
- John 17:25Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.
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