The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.
Parallel translations
- KJV The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
- BSB Those who hate the LORD would feign obedience, and their doom would last forever.
- NKJV The haters of the Lord would pretend submission to Him, But their fate would endure forever.
- NASB “Those who hate the Lord would pretend to obey Him, And their time of punishment would be forever.
- NLT Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him; they would be doomed forever.
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Cross-references & the web
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- Deut 7:10and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates him. He will repay him to his face.
- Ps 63:3Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
- Rom 1:30backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
- Rom 8:7because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.
- Ps 102:28The children of your servants will continue. Their offspring will be established before you.”
- John 15:22–23If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
- Ps 18:44–45As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
- Joel 3:20But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
- Exod 20:5you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
- Ps 83:2–18For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
- Isa 65:22They will not build, and another inhabit. They will not plant, and another eat: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my chosen will long enjoy the work of their hands.
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