Lamentations 3:66 “You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your hea…”

Lamentations 3:66

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.

World English Bible

You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Persecute with wrath and destroy them from vnder the heauen, O Lord.

Darby Translation

pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

You will go after them in wrath, and put an end to them from under the heavens of the Lord.

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Cross references

“Persecute”

Lamentations 3:43 Psalm 35:6 Psalm 73:15

Lamentations 3:43 · BSB

You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.

Psalm 35:6 · BSB

May their path be dark and slick, as the angel of the LORD pursues.

Psalm 73:15 · BSB

If I had said, “I will speak this way,” then I would have betrayed Your children.

“under”

Deuteronomy 25:19 Jeremiah 10:11 Deuteronomy 7:24 Deuteronomy 29:20 2 Kings 14:27

Deuteronomy 25:19 · BSB

When 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!

Jeremiah 10:11 · BSB

Thus 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.”

Deuteronomy 7:24 · BSB

He 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.

Deuteronomy 29:20 · BSB

The 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

2 Kings 14:27 · BSB

and 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.

“heavens”

Psalm 8:3 Psalm 115:16 Isaiah 66:1

Psalm 8:3 · BSB

When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—

Psalm 115:16 · BSB

The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth He has given to mankind.

Isaiah 66:1 · BSB

This 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?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

65Put a veil of anguish over their hearts; may Your curse be upon them!

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