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

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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 enemies have vanished in everlasting ruins;
    their cities you have rooted out;
    the very memory of them has perished.(A)

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Endless ruin has overtaken my enemies,
    you have uprooted their cities;(A)
    even the memory of them(B) has perished.

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God’s Ways Are Inscrutable

10 Then I saw the wicked approaching to sacrifice;[a] they go in and out of the holy place, and they boast[b] in the city that they have done such things. This also is vanity.

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Footnotes

  1. 8.10 Cn: Heb buried
  2. 8.10 Gk: Heb they were forgotten

10 Then too, I saw the wicked buried(A)—those who used to come and go from the holy place and receive praise[a] in the city where they did this. This too is meaningless.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 8:10 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint (Aquila); most Hebrew manuscripts and are forgotten