Lamentations 3:66

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Ps 8:3 : 3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
Deut 25:19 : 19 Therefore it shall be, when Jehovah thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which Jehovah 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.
Jer 10:11 : 11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.
Lam 3:43 : 43 Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
Deut 29:20 : 20 Jehovah will not pardon him, but then the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven.
2 Kgs 14:27 : 27 And Jehovah said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
Ps 35:6 : 6 Let their way be dark and slippery, And the angel of Jehovah pursuing them.
Ps 73:15 : 15 If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children.
Ps 115:16 : 16 The heavens are the heavens of Jehovah; But the earth hath he given to the children of men.
Isa 66:1 : 1 Thus saith Jehovah, Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what manner of house will ye build unto me? and what place shall be my rest?
Deut 7:24 : 24 And he will deliver their kings into thy hand, and thou shalt make their name to perish from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Lam 3:65
81%
65Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, thy curse unto them.
Ps 21:9-10
2 verses
79%
9Thou wilt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger: Jehovah will swallow them up in his wrath, And the fire shall devour them.
10Their fruit wilt thou destroy from the earth, And their seed from among the children of men.
Ps 69:24-25
2 verses
78%
24Pour out thine indignation upon them, And let the fierceness of thine anger overtake them.
25Let their habitation be desolate; Let none dwell in their tents.
Ps 83:15
77%
15So pursue them with thy tempest, And terrify them with thy storm.
Ps 144:6
76%
6Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.
Ps 59:13
75%
13Consume them in wrath, consume them, so that they shall be no more: And let them know that God ruleth in Jacob, Unto the ends of the earth. {H5542}
Deut 7:23-24
2 verses
75%
23But Jehovah thy God will deliver them up before thee, and will discomfit them with a great discomfiture, until they be destroyed.
24And he will deliver their kings into thy hand, and thou shalt make their name to perish from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
Deut 7:2
74%
2and when Jehovah thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them; then thou shalt utterly destroy them: thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them;
Deut 28:63
74%
63And it shall come to pass, that, as Jehovah rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Jehovah will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest in to possess it.
Mic 5:15
74%
15And I will execute vengeance in anger and wrath upon the nations which hearkened not.
Jer 10:25
74%
25Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have devoured Jacob, yea, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
Deut 29:27-28
2 verses
74%
27therefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book;
28and Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day.
Isa 13:9
74%
9Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
Isa 13:5
74%
5They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Jehovah, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
Jer 25:37
74%
37And the peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.
Ps 74:8
74%
8They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether: They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
Ps 79:7
73%
7For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his habitation.
Ps 149:7
73%
7To execute vengeance upon the nations, And punishments upon the peoples;
Isa 34:2
73%
2For Jehovah hath indignation against all the nations, and wrath against all their host: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
Ps 2:5
73%
5Then will he speak unto them in his wrath, And vex them in his sore displeasure:
Ps 5:10
73%
10Hold them guilty, O God; Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions; For they have rebelled against thee.
Ps 35:6
73%
6Let their way be dark and slippery, And the angel of Jehovah pursuing them.
Deut 9:3
73%
3Know therefore this day, that Jehovah thy God is he who goeth over before thee as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before thee: so shalt thou drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as Jehovah hath spoken unto thee.
Hab 3:12
73%
12Thou didst march through the land in indignation; Thou didst thresh the nations in anger.
Deut 9:14
73%
14let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
Deut 31:4
73%
4And Jehovah will do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and unto their land; whom he destroyed.
Ps 34:16
73%
16The face of Jehovah is against them that do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Deut 2:15
73%
15Moreover the hand of Jehovah was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.
Deut 30:7
73%
7And Jehovah thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, that persecuted thee.
Jer 50:26
73%
26Come against her from the utmost border; open her store-houses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.
Nah 1:8
72%
8But with an over-running flood he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
Amos 2:3
72%
3and I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith Jehovah.
Deut 6:19
72%
19to thrust out all thine enemies from before thee, as Jehovah hath spoken.
Jer 15:14
72%
14[And I will make them] to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not; for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.
Deut 13:15
72%
15you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is in it and the cattle there, with the edge of the sword.
Jer 50:21
72%
21Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: slay and utterly destroy after them, saith Jehovah, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.
Ps 56:7
72%
7Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God.
Jer 18:23
72%
23Yet, Jehovah, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight; but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thou with them in the time of thine anger.
Num 33:52
72%
52then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured [stones], and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places:
Isa 14:6
72%
6that smote the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.
Jer 18:21
72%
21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men smitten of the sword in battle.
Rom 3:16
72%
16Destruction and misery are in their ways;
Jer 29:18
72%
18And I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an execration, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them;
Lam 3:43
72%
43Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.