Lamentations 3:66

Translations

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

May You pursue them in Your anger and destroy them from under the heavens, O YHWH!

Latin

Persequeris in furore, et conteres eos sub cælis, Domine.

Original

Hebrew

English

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

Notes

Lamentations 3:64–66

This prayer for vengeance is similar to several psalms (see “Prayers for Vengeance” Theme Note).

Lamentations 3:58–66

Jerusalem deserved punishment, but the enemies carried it out with undeserved cruelty. The writer calls upon God to punish them.

Lamentations 3:48–66

The author emphasizes how cruel the enemies are and cries out to the Lord for help.

Lamentations 3:1–66

In this chapter, the author mourns what has happened (Lamentations 3:1–20, 48–54). In this chapter, the author mourns what has happened (Lamentations 3:21–25). He explains how God’s people should respond (Lamentations 3:26–47). Finally, he calls out to the Lord in prayer (Lamentations 3:55–66).

Theme notes and profiles

Prayers for Vengeance

Related verses

Psalm 8:3
When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—
Deuteronomy 25:19
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!
Psalm 115:16
The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth He has given to mankind.
Lamentations 3:43
You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.
Jeremiah 10:11
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.”
Psalm 73:15
If I had said, “I will speak this way,” then I would have betrayed Your children.
Isaiah 66:1
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?
Psalm 35:6
May their path be dark and slick, as the angel of the LORD pursues.
Deuteronomy 7:24
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.
2 Kings 14:27
…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.
Deuteronomy 29:20
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

Glossary

Acrostic Lamentations, Book of Poetry, Biblical

Topics

Prayer: Imprecatory Scorning and Mocking: Punishment For

Lamentations 3:66

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