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The Song of the Slandered

Psalms 109:15

In 11 translations

BSB
May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.
KJV
Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
WEB
Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth;
ASV
Let them be before Jehovah continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
LSV
They are continually before YHWH, || And He cuts off their memorial from earth.
YLT
They are before Jehovah continually, And He cutteth off from earth their memorial.
DBY
Let them be before Jehovah continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth:
DRC108:15
May they be before the lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth:
GNV
But let them alway be before the Lord, that he may cut off their memorial from ye earth.
JPS
Let them be before the LORD continually, that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
LXXE108:15
Let them be before the Lord continually; and let their memorial be blotted out from the earth.

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Original-language editions

WLC
יִהְי֣וּ נֶֽגֶד־יְהוָ֣ה תָּמִ֑יד וְיַכְרֵ֖ת מֵאֶ֣רֶץ זִכְרָֽם׃
LXX-Br108:15
Γενηθήτωσαν ἐναντίον Κυρίου διαπαντὸς, καὶ ἐξολοθρευθείη ἐκ γῆς τὸ μνημόσυνον αὐτῶν·

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 34:16But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.
  • Psalms 90:8You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
  • Job 18:17The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
  • Psalms 51:9Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.
  • Amos 8:7The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.
  • Jeremiah 2:22Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD.
  • Psalms 109:13May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
  • Deuteronomy 32:34“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?
  • Isaiah 65:15You will leave behind your name as a curse for My chosen ones, and the Lord GOD will slay you; but to His servants He will give another name.
  • Hosea 7:2But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face.

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