Psalm 34:16 {33:17}
Good News Translation
but he opposes those who do evil, so that when they die, they are soon forgotten.

New Revised Standard Version
The face of the LORD is against evildoers, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

Contemporary English Version
But God despises evil people, and he will wipe them all from the earth, till they are forgotten.

New American Bible
The LORD’s face is against evildoers to wipe out their memory from the earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the countenance of the Lord is against them that do evil things: to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But the countenance of the Lord is against them that do evil things: to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

face

Leviticus 17:10 If any man whosoever of the house of Israel, and of the strangers that sojourn among them, eat blood, I will set my face against his soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 26:17 I will set my face against you, and you shall fall down before your enemies: and shall be made subject to them that hate you. You shall flee when no man pursueth you.

Jeremiah 44:11 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will set my face upon you for evil: and I will destroy all Juda.

Ezekiel 14:7,8 For every man of the house of Israel, and every stranger among the proselytes in Israel, if he separate himself from me, and place his idols in his heart, and set the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and come to the prophet to inquire of me by him: I the Lord will answer him by myself. . . .

Amos 9:4 And though they be hid in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them away from thence: and though they hide themselves from my eyes in the depth of the sea, there will I command the serpent and he shall bite them.

to cut

Psalm 10:16 The Lord shall reign to eternity, yea, for ever and ever: ye Gentiles shall perish from his land.

Job 18:17 Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be renowned in the streets.

Proverbs 10:7 The wise of heart receiveth precepts: a fool is beaten with lips.

Ecclesiastes 8:10 I saw the wicked buried: who also when they were yet living were in the holy place, and were praised in the city as men of just works: but this also is vanity.

Jeremiah 17:13 O Lord, the hope of Israel: all that forsake thee shall be confounded: they that depart from thee, shall be written in the earth: because they have forsaken the Lord, the vein of living waters.

Context
Taste and See that the LORD is Good
15The eyes of the Lord are upon the just: and his ears unto their prayers. 16But the countenance of the Lord is against them that do evil things: to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.17The just cried, and the Lord heard them: and delivered them out of all their troubles.…
Cross References
1 Peter 3:12
Because the eyes of the Lord are upon the just, and his ears unto their prayers but the countenance of the Lord upon them that do evil things.

Leviticus 17:10
If any man whosoever of the house of Israel, and of the strangers that sojourn among them, eat blood, I will set my face against his soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

Job 18:17
Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be renowned in the streets.

Job 24:20
Let mercy forget him: may worms be his sweetness: let him be remembered no more, but be broken in pieces as an unfruitful tree.

Psalm 5:4
In the morning I will stand before thee, and I will see: because thou art not a God that willest iniquity.

Psalm 9:6
The swords of the enemy have failed unto the end: and their cities thou hast destroyed. Their memory hath perished with a noise:

Psalm 11:4
For they have destroyed the things which thou hast made: but what has the just man done?

Psalm 109:15
May they be before the Lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth:

Proverbs 10:7
The wise of heart receiveth precepts: a fool is beaten with lips.

Jeremiah 23:30
Therefore behold I am against the prophets, saith the Lord: who steal my words every one from his neighbour.

Jeremiah 44:11
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will set my face upon you for evil: and I will destroy all Juda.

Ezekiel 15:7
And I will set my face against them: they shall go out from fire, and fire shall consume them: and you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have set my face against them.

Amos 9:4
And though they be hid in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them away from thence: and though they hide themselves from my eyes in the depth of the sea, there will I command the serpent and he shall bite them.

Habakkuk 1:13
Thy eyes are too pure to behold evil, and thou canst not look on iniquity. Why lookest thou upon them that do unjust things, and holdest thy peace when the wicked devoureth the man that is more just than himself?

Psalm 34:15
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