Lamentations 3:66
Thou wilt persecute them in anger, 1 And wilt consume them from under the heaven, O Lord.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
In Context
65Thou wilt give them as a covering, 1 The grief of my heart. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 25:19And it shall come to pass whenever the Lord thy God shall have given thee rest from all thine enemies round about thee, in the land which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit, thou shalt blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven, and shalt not forget to do it.
2 Kings 14:27And the Lord said that he would not blot out the seed of Israel from under heaven; so he delivered them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
Psalms 35:5He devises iniquity on his bed; 1 He gives himself to every evil way; 1 And does not abhor evil. 1
Psalms 73:15Thou didst cleave fountains and torrents; 1 Thou driedst up mighty rivers. 1
Isaiah 66:1Thus saith the Lord, Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what kind of a house will ye build me? and of what kind is to be the place of my rest?
Jeremiah 15:15O Lord, remember me, and visit me, and vindicate me before them that persecute me; do not bear long with them; know how I have met with reproach for thy sake, from those who set at nought thy words;
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 →