Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.

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You have rebuked the nations(A) and destroyed the wicked;
    you have blotted out their name(B) for ever and ever.

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The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

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The name of the righteous(A) is used in blessings,[a]
    but the name of the wicked(B) will rot.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 10:7 See Gen. 48:20.

14 Let 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.

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14 Let me alone,(A) so that I may destroy them and blot out(B) their name from under heaven.(C) And I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.”

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15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

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15 Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword(A) with which to strike down(B) the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.”[a](C) He treads the winepress(D) of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty.

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  1. Revelation 19:15 Psalm 2:9

And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts.

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Then you will trample(A) on the wicked; they will be ashes(B) under the soles of your feet on the day when I act,” says the Lord Almighty.

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The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

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The light of the righteous shines brightly,
    but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.(A)

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To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;

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to inflict vengeance(A) on the nations
    and punishment(B) on the peoples,

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10 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.

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10 Why should the nations say,
    “Where is their God?”(A)

Before our eyes, make known among the nations
    that you avenge(B) the outpoured blood(C) of your servants.

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55 He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

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55 He drove out nations(A) before them
    and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance;(B)
    he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.

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44 Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.

45 Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.

46 Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.

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44 “You have delivered(A) me from the attacks of the peoples;
    you have preserved(B) me as the head of nations.
People(C) I did not know now serve me,
45     foreigners cower(D) before me;
    as soon as they hear of me, they obey me.(E)
46 They all lose heart;
    they come trembling[a](F) from their strongholds.

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  1. 2 Samuel 22:46 Some Septuagint manuscripts and Vulgate (see also Psalm 18:45); Masoretic Text they arm themselves

23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

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23 When Ahithophel saw that his advice(A) had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He put his house in order(B) and then hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.

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Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

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    you destroy those who tell lies.(A)
The bloodthirsty and deceitful
    you, Lord, detest.

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Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

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Ask me,
    and I will make the nations(A) your inheritance,(B)
    the ends of the earth(C) your possession.
You will break them with a rod of iron[a];(D)
    you will dash them to pieces(E) like pottery.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 2:9 Or will rule them with an iron scepter (see Septuagint and Syriac)