Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Let them be always before the LORD, that he may root out the memorial of them from off the earth;

New American Standard Bible

Let them be before the Lord continually,
That He may cut off their memory from the earth;

King James Version

Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Holman Bible

Let their sins always remain before the Lord,
and let Him erase all memory of them from the earth.

International Standard Version

May what they have done be continually in the LORD's presence; and may their memory be excised from the earth.

A Conservative Version

Let them be before LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth,

American Standard Version

Let them be before Jehovah continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

Amplified


Let them be before the Lord continually,
That He may cut off their memory from the earth;

Bible in Basic English

Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.

Darby Translation

Let them be before Jehovah continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth:

Julia Smith Translation

They shall be before Jehovah always, and their remembrance shall be cut off from the earth.

King James 2000

Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off their memory from [the] earth,

Modern King James verseion

Let them be always before Jehovah, that He may cut off their memory from the earth,

NET Bible

May the Lord be constantly aware of them, and cut off the memory of his children from the earth!

New Heart English Bible

Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

The Emphasized Bible

Let them be before Yahweh continually, and let the memory of them, be cut off out of the earth.

Webster

Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

World English Bible

Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

Youngs Literal Translation

They are before Jehovah continually, And He cutteth off from earth their memorial.

Context Readings

Prayer Against An Enemy

14 Let the wickedness of his fathers be had in remembrance in the sight of LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be done away. 15 Let them be always before the LORD, that he may root out the memorial of them from off the earth; 16 and that, because his mind was not to do good, but persecuted the poor helpless, and him that was vexed at the heart, to slay him.

Cross References

Psalm 34:16

But the face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to root out the remembrance of them from the earth.

Job 18:17

His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and his name shall not be praised in the streets:

Psalm 90:8

Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee, and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

Deuteronomy 32:34

Are not such things laid in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?

Psalm 51:9

Turn thy face from my sins, and put out all my misdeeds.

Psalm 109:13

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

Isaiah 65:15

Your name shall not be sworn by among my chosen, for God the LORD shall slay you, and call his servants by another name.

Jeremiah 2:22

Yea, and that so sore, that though thou washest thee with Nitre and makest thyself to savour with that sweet smelling herb of Borith: yet in my sight thou art stained with thy wickedness, sayeth the LORD thy God.

Hosea 7:2

They consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. They go about with their own inventions, but I see them well enough.

Amos 8:7

The LORD hath sworn against the pride of Jacob, "These works of theirs will I never forget.

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