Lamentations 3:66
New International Version
Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.

New Living Translation
Chase them down in your anger, destroying them beneath the LORD’s heavens.

English Standard Version
You will pursue them in anger and destroy them from under your heavens, O LORD.”

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

King James Bible
Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.

New King James Version
In Your anger, Pursue and destroy them From under the heavens of the LORD.

New American Standard Bible
You will pursue them in anger and eliminate them From under the heavens of the LORD!

NASB 1995
You will pursue them in anger and destroy them From under the heavens of the LORD!

NASB 1977
Thou wilt pursue them in anger and destroy them From under the heavens of the LORD!

Legacy Standard Bible
You will pursue them in anger and destroy them From under the heavens of Yahweh!

Amplified Bible
You will pursue them in anger and destroy them From under the heavens of the LORD.

Christian Standard Bible
You will pursue them in anger and destroy them under your heavens.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You will pursue them in anger and destroy them under Your heavens.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
You shall pursue, and in your passion you will destroy them from under your heavens, LORD JEHOVAH

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thou wilt persecute them in anger, and wilt consume them from under the heaven, O Lord.

Contemporary English Version
Get angry and go after them until not a trace is left under the heavens.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord.

English Revised Version
Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Pursue them in anger, and wipe them out from under the LORD's heaven."

Good News Translation
Hunt them down and wipe them off the earth!"

International Standard Version
Pursue them in your anger and destroy them from under the LORD's heaven.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them From under the heavens of the LORD.

Literal Standard Version
You pursue in anger, and destroy them, | From under the heavens of YHWH!

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

New American Bible
Pursue them in wrath and destroy them from under the LORD’s heaven!

NET Bible
Pursue them in anger and eradicate them from under the LORD's heaven.

New Revised Standard Version
Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the LORD’s heavens.

New Heart English Bible
You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.

Webster's Bible Translation
Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.

World English Bible
You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou pursuest in anger, and destroyest them, From under the heavens of Jehovah!

Additional Translations ...
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Context
A Prayer for Deliverance
65Put a veil of anguish over their hearts; may Your curse be upon them! 66You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.

Cross References
Psalm 8:3
When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place--

Lamentations 3:43
You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.


Treasury of Scripture

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

persecute

Lamentations 3:43
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

Psalm 35:6
Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.

Psalm 73:15
If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

under

Deuteronomy 7:24
And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.

Deuteronomy 25:19
Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD 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 it.

Deuteronomy 29:20
The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

heavens

Psalm 8:3
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

Psalm 115:16
The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.

Isaiah 66:1
Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?

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(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.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You will pursue them
תִּרְדֹּ֤ף (tir·dōp̄)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7291: To pursue, chase, persecute

in anger
בְּאַף֙ (bə·’ap̄)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 639: The nose, nostril, the face, a person, ire

and exterminate them
וְתַשְׁמִידֵ֔ם (wə·ṯaš·mî·ḏêm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's 8045: To be exterminated or destroyed

from under
מִתַּ֖חַת (mit·ta·ḥaṯ)
Preposition-m
Strong's 8478: The bottom, below, in lieu of

the heavens
שְׁמֵ֥י (šə·mê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 8064: Heaven, sky

of the LORD.
יְהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel


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