Lamentations 3:66

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“You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.”

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BSBPD

“You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the Lord.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Thou pursuest in anger, and destroyest them, From under the heavens of Jehovah!”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Lamentations 3:66 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 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.
  2. 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!
  3. 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
  4. 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.
  5. Psalms 8:3When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—
  6. Psalms 35:5May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.
  7. Psalms 35:6May their path be dark and slick, as the angel of the LORD pursues.
  8. Psalms 73:15If I had said, “I will speak this way,” then I would have betrayed Your children.
  9. Psalms 115:16The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth He has given to mankind.
  10. 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?
  11. 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.”
  12. Jeremiah 15:15You understand, O LORD; remember me and attend to me. Avenge me against my persecutors. In Your patience, do not take me away. Know that I endure reproach for Your honor.
  13. Lamentations 3:43You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.
  14. Hosea 8:3But Israel has rejected good; an enemy will pursue him.

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