Parallel Verses

NET Bible

May his descendants be cut off! May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives!

New American Standard Bible

Let his posterity be cut off;
In a following generation let their name be blotted out.

King James Version

Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Holman Bible

Let the line of his descendants be cut off;
let their name be blotted out in the next generation.

International Standard Version

May his descendants be eliminated, and their memory be erased from the next generation.

A Conservative Version

Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

American Standard Version

Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Amplified


Let his descendants be cut off,
And in the following generation let their name be blotted out.

Bible in Basic English

Let his seed be cut off; in the coming generation let their name go out of memory.

Darby Translation

Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out:

Julia Smith Translation

His descendants shall be for cutting off; in the later generation their name shall be wiped off.

King James 2000

Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Let his descendants be cut off. Let their name be blotted out in [the] next generation.

Modern King James verseion

Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Let his posterity be destroyed; and in the next generation let his name be clean put out.

New Heart English Bible

Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

The Emphasized Bible

Let his posterity be for cutting off, In another generation, let their name be wiped out;

Webster

Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

World English Bible

Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Youngs Literal Translation

His posterity is for cutting off, In another generation is their name blotted out.

Verse Info

Context Readings

Prayer Against An Enemy

12 May no one show him kindness! May no one have compassion on his fatherless children! 13 May his descendants be cut off! May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives! 14 May his ancestors' sins be remembered by the Lord! May his mother's sin not be forgotten!

Cross References

Proverbs 10:7

The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the reputation of the wicked will rot.

Job 18:19

He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.

Psalm 37:28

For the Lord promotes justice, and never abandons his faithful followers. They are permanently secure, but the children of evil men are wiped out.

Deuteronomy 9:14

Stand aside and I will destroy them, obliterating their very name from memory, and I will make you into a stronger and more numerous nation than they are."

Deuteronomy 25:19

So when the Lord your God gives you relief from all the enemies who surround you in the land he is giving you as an inheritance, you must wipe out the memory of the Amalekites from under heaven -- do not forget!

Deuteronomy 29:20

The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger will rage against that man; all the curses written in this scroll will fall upon him and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory.

1 Samuel 2:31-33

In fact, days are coming when I will remove your strength and the strength of your father's house. There will not be an old man in your house!

1 Samuel 3:13

You should tell him that I am about to judge his house forever because of the sin that he knew about. For his sons were cursing God, and he did not rebuke them.

2 Kings 10:10-11

Therefore take note that not one of the judgments the Lord announced against Ahab's dynasty has failed to materialize. The Lord had done what he announced through his servant Elijah."

Psalm 21:10

You destroy their offspring from the earth, their descendants from among the human race.

Isaiah 14:20-22

You will not be buried with them, because you destroyed your land and killed your people. The offspring of the wicked will never be mentioned again.

Jeremiah 22:30

The Lord says, "Enroll this man in the register as though he were childless. Enroll him as a man who will not enjoy success during his lifetime. For none of his sons will succeed in occupying the throne of David or ever succeed in ruling over Judah."

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