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God’s Justice

Lamentations 3:66

In 11 translations

BSB
You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.
KJV
Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
WEB
You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.
ASV
Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.
LSV
You pursue in anger, and destroy them, || From under the heavens of YHWH!
YLT
Thou pursuest in anger, and destroyest them, From under the heavens of Jehovah!
DBY
pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.
DRC
Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord.
GNV
Persecute with wrath and destroy them from vnder the heauen, O Lord.
JPS
Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.
LXXE
Thou wilt persecute them in anger, and wilt consume them from under the heaven, O Lord.

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Original-language editions

WLC
תִּרְדֹּ֤ף בְּאַף֙ וְתַשְׁמִידֵ֔ם מִתַּ֖חַת שְׁמֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃
LXX-Br
Σὺ αὐτοὺς καταδιώξεις ἐν ὀργῇ, καὶ ἐξαναλώσεις αὐτοὺς ὑποκάτωθεν τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, Κύριε.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 8:3When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—
  • Psalms 115:16The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth He has given to mankind.
  • Deuteronomy 25:19When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
  • Lamentations 3:43You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.
  • Jeremiah 10:11Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.”
  • Isaiah 66:1This is what the LORD says: “Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me? Or where will My place of repose be?
  • 2 Kings 14:27and since the LORD had said that He would not blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Jehoash.
  • Deuteronomy 29:20The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
  • Psalms 73:15If I had said, “I will speak this way,” then I would have betrayed Your children.
  • Psalms 35:6May their path be dark and slick, as the angel of the LORD pursues.
  • Deuteronomy 7:24He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them.

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