You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.
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You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.
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Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
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Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.
Cross-references (11)
Passages linked to Lamentations 3:66 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 8:3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
- Deuteronomy 25:19 Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky. You shall not forget.
- Psalms 115:16 The heavens are Yahweh’s heavens, but he has given the earth to the children of men.
- Jeremiah 10:11 “You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.’ ”
- Lamentations 3:43 “You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.
- Deuteronomy 7:24 He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under the sky. No one will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.
- Deuteronomy 29:20 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
- 2 Kings 14:27 Yahweh didn’t say that he would blot out the name of Israel from under the sky; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
- Psalms 35:6 Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh’s angel pursuing them.
- Psalms 73:15 If I had said, “I will speak thus”; behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
- Isaiah 66:1 Yahweh says, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest?
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain He first asks God to persecute them in wrath,…
He first asks God to persecute them in wrath, that is, to be implacable to them; for persecution is, when God not only chastises the wicked for a short time, but when he adds evils to evils, and accumulates them until they perish. He then adds, and prays God to destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah This phrase is emphatical; and they extenuate the weightiness of the sentence, who thus render it, “that God himself would destroy the ungodly from the earth.” For the Prophet does not without a design mention the heavens of Jehovah, as though he had said, that though God is hidden from us while we sojourn in the world, he yet dwells in heaven, for heaven is often called the throne of God, —
“The heaven is my throne.” (Isaiah 66:1.)
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“O God, who dwellest in the sanctuary.” (Psalm 22:4; Psalm 77:14.)
By God’s sanctuary is often meant heaven. For this reason, then, the Prophet asked here that the ungodly should be destroyed from under the heaven of Jehovah, that is, that their destruction might testify that he sits in heaven, and is the judge of the world, and that things are not in such a confusion, but that the ungodly must at length render an account before the celestial judge, whom they have yet long neglected. This is the end of the chapter.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lam 3:66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from…
Lam 3:66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
Ver. 66. Persecute and destroy them in anger.] Since they are thine and our implacable and irreformable enemies, be thou, Lord, implacably bent against them, to their utter destruction; and since they think us not worthy to breathe in the common air - whom thou hast made heirs of the world together with faithful Abraham our progenitor - destroy them from under these heavens of thine, in the compass and cope whereof thou reignest and rulest all.
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From under the heavens of the Lord.] Do thou, O Christ - to whom the Father hath committed all judgment - root them out from under the heavens of thy heavenly Father. Thus some paraphrase the words, and observe therehence the mystery of the Trinity; like as they do from Gen 19:24.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Bring them to a temporal ruin and destruction. How…
Bring them to a temporal ruin and destruction. How far such petitions are lawful we have before showed, in our notes on Psa 69:22-24, &c.; Psa 119:6-10, &c.; Jer 11:20; 15:15; see also Lam 1:22. It is hard to interpret all passages of this nature which we meet with as prophecies, though some of them are so, and others may be both prophecies and prayers.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Persecute - Many passages of this nature which we…
Persecute - Many passages of this nature which we meet with are prophecies, some of them may be both prophecies and prayers.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 66. Persecute and destroy them] Thou wilt pursue…
Verse 66. Persecute and destroy them] Thou wilt pursue them with destruction. These are all declaratory, not imprecatory.
From under the heavens of the Lord.] This verse seems to allude to the Chaldaic prediction, in Jer 10:11. By their conduct they will bring on themselves the curse denounced against their enemies.
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The Septuagint and Vulgate seem to have read "From under heaven, O Jehovah:" and the Syriac reads, "Thy heavens, O Jehovah!" None of these makes any material change in the meaning of the words.
It has already been noticed in the introduction, that this chapter contains a triple acrostic, three lines always beginning with the same letter; so that the Hebrew alphabet is thrice repeated in this chapter, twenty-two multiplied by three being equal to sixty-six.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain from under . . . heavens of . .…
from under . . . heavens of . . . Lord--destroy them so that it may be seen everywhere under heaven that thou sittest above as Judge of the world.
Next: Lamentations Chapter 4
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (66) From under the heavens of the Lord.—The phrase…
(66) From under the heavens of the Lord.—The phrase is exceptional, but it is obviously equivalent to the whole world, considered as God’s kingdom.
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