Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD. New Living Translation Chase them down in your anger, destroying them beneath the LORD’s heavens. English Standard Version You will pursue them in anger and destroy them from under your heavens, O LORD.” Berean Standard Bible You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD. King James Bible Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. New King James Version In Your anger, Pursue and destroy them From under the heavens of the LORD. New American Standard Bible You will pursue them in anger and eliminate them From under the heavens of the LORD! NASB 1995 You will pursue them in anger and destroy them From under the heavens of the LORD! NASB 1977 Thou wilt pursue them in anger and destroy them From under the heavens of the LORD! Legacy Standard Bible You will pursue them in anger and destroy them From under the heavens of Yahweh! Amplified Bible You will pursue them in anger and destroy them From under the heavens of the LORD. Christian Standard Bible You will pursue them in anger and destroy them under your heavens. Holman Christian Standard Bible You will pursue them in anger and destroy them under Your heavens. American Standard Version Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah. Contemporary English Version Get angry and go after them until not a trace is left under the heavens. English Revised Version Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD. GOD'S WORD® Translation Pursue them in anger, and wipe them out from under the LORD's heaven." Good News Translation Hunt them down and wipe them off the earth!" International Standard Version Pursue them in your anger and destroy them from under the LORD's heaven. Majority Standard Bible You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD. NET Bible Pursue them in anger and eradicate them from under the LORD's heaven. New Heart English Bible You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD. Webster's Bible Translation 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 Yahweh. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionYou pursue in anger, and destroy them, "" From under the heavens of YHWH! Young's Literal Translation Thou pursuest in anger, and destroyest them, From under the heavens of Jehovah! Smith's Literal Translation Thou wilt pursue in thine anger, and thou wilt destroy them from under the heavens, O Jehovah. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleThau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord. Catholic Public Domain Version THAU. You shall pursue them in fury, and you shall destroy them under the heavens, O Lord. New American Bible Pursue them in wrath and destroy them from under the LORD’s heaven! New Revised Standard Version Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the LORD’s heavens. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleDestroy them in thine anger from under thy heavens, O LORD. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated You shall pursue, and in your passion you will destroy them from under your heavens, LORD JEHOVAH OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them From under the heavens of the LORD. Brenton Septuagint Translation Thou wilt persecute them in anger, and wilt consume them from under the heaven, O Lord. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context A Prayer for Deliverance…65Put a veil of anguish over their hearts; may Your curse be upon them! 66You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD. Cross References Psalm 35:4-8 May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame; may those who plan to harm me be driven back and confounded. / May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away. / May their path be dark and slick, as the angel of the LORD pursues. ... Psalm 109:17-20 The cursing that he loved, may it fall on him; the blessing in which he refused to delight, may it be far from him. / The cursing that he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil. / May it be like a robe wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him. ... Jeremiah 18:21-23 Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle. / Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet. / But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger. Psalm 69:22-28 May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap. / May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever. / Pour out Your wrath upon them, and let Your burning anger overtake them. ... Psalm 83:13-18 Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind. / As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze, / so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm. ... Psalm 140:9-11 May the heads of those who surround me be covered in the trouble their lips have caused. / May burning coals fall on them; may they be thrown into the fire, into the miry pits, never to rise again. / May no slanderer be established in the land; may calamity hunt down the man of violence. Jeremiah 11:20 O LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously, who examines the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause. Psalm 7:11-16 God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation each day. / If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow. / He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire. ... Psalm 58:6-10 O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions. / May they vanish like water that runs off; when they draw the bow, may their arrows be blunted. / Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun. ... Romans 12:19 Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God’s wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord.” 2 Thessalonians 1:6-9 After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, / and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels / in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. ... Revelation 6:10 And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge those who dwell upon the earth and avenge our blood?” Matthew 23:35-36 And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. / Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation. Luke 18:7-8 Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay in helping them? / I tell you, He will promptly carry out justice on their behalf. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?” 1 Peter 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.” Treasury of Scripture Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. persecute Lamentations 3:43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. Psalm 35:6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them. Psalm 73:15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children. under Deuteronomy 7:24 And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them. Deuteronomy 25:19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it. Deuteronomy 29:20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven. heavens Psalm 8:3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; Psalm 115:16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men. Isaiah 66:1 Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? Jump to Previous Anger Destroy Destroyest End Heavens Persecute Pursue Wilt WrathJump to Next Anger Destroy Destroyest End Heavens Persecute Pursue Wilt WrathLamentations 3 1. The prophet bewails his own calamities22. By the mercies of God, he nourishes his hope 37. He acknowledges God's justice 55. He prays for deliverance 64. And vengeance on his enemies Pursue them in anger The Hebrew word for "pursue" is "רָדַף" (radaph), which conveys a sense of relentless chasing or hunting down. In the context of Lamentations, this pursuit is not merely physical but also spiritual and moral. The phrase "in anger" reflects God's righteous indignation against sin and injustice. Historically, this pursuit can be seen as a divine response to the persistent rebellion and idolatry of the people. Theologically, it underscores the seriousness with which God views sin and His commitment to justice. This pursuit is not capricious but is rooted in God's holy character, emphasizing that divine anger is always just and purposeful. and wipe them out from under the heavens of the LORD
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