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Psalm 83:4

saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

World English Bible

“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

American Standard Version

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

Geneva Bible 1599

They haue said, Come and let vs cut them off from being a nation: and let the name of Israel be no more in remembrance.

Darby Translation

They say, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, and let the name of Israel be mentioned no more.

Young's Literal Translation

They have said, 'Come, And we cut them off from [being] a nation, And the name of Israel is not remembered any more.'

Bible in Basic English

They have said, Come, let us put an end to them as a nation; so that the name of Israel may go out of man's memory.

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Cross references

“They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.”

Jeremiah 11:19 Esther 3:6–9 Exodus 1:10 Daniel 7:25 Proverbs 1:12 Jeremiah 31:36

Jeremiah 11:19 · BSB

For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no…

Esther 3:6–9 · BSB

And when he learned the identity of Mordecai’s people, he scorned the notion of laying hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he sought to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the kingdom of Xerxes.

Exodus 1:10 · BSB

Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase even more; and if a war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country. ”

Daniel 7:25 · BSB

He will speak out against the Most High and oppress the saints of the Most High, intending to change the appointed times and laws; and the saints will be given into his hand for a time, and times, and half a time.

Proverbs 1:12 · BSB

let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.

Jeremiah 31:36 · BSB

“Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the LORD, would Israel’s descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me.”

Also

Jeremiah 48:2 Psalm 74:8

Jeremiah 48:2 · BSB

There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.

Psalm 74:8 · BSB

They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land.

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

In context

3With cunning they scheme against Your people and conspire against those You cherish,

5For with one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against You—

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