Lamentations 3:66
You pursue in anger, and destroy them, || From under the heavens of YHWH!
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
In Context
65You give to them a covered heart, || Your curse to them.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 25:19And it has been, in your God YHWH giving rest to you from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which your God YHWH is giving to you [for] an inheritance to possess it, you blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens—you do not forget.”
2 Kings 14:27and YHWH has not spoken to blot out the name of Israel from under the heavens, and saves them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Joash.
Psalms 35:5They are as chaff before wind, || And a messenger of YHWH driving away.
Psalms 73:15If I have said, “I recount thus,” || Behold, I have deceived a generation of Your sons.
Isaiah 66:1Thus said YHWH: “The heavens [are] My throne, || And the earth My footstool, || Where [is] this—the house that you build for Me? And where [is] this—the place—My rest?
Jeremiah 15:15You, You have known, O YHWH, || Remember me, and inspect me, || And take vengeance for me of my pursuers, || In Your long-suffering do not take me away, || Know [that] I have borne reproach for You.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:56-66
God's Goodness Acknowledged; An Appeal to God. ( b. c. 588.) 55 I called upon thy name, O Lord , out of the low dungeon. 56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. 57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. 58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. 59 O Lord , thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause. 60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me. 61 Thou hast heard their… Read the whole commentary →