Hear us, our God, for we are despised.(A) Turn their insults back on their own heads. Give them over as plunder in a land of captivity.

Read full chapter

Do not cover up their guilt(A) or blot out their sins from your sight,(B) for they have thrown insults in the face of[a] the builders.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 4:5 Or have aroused your anger before

15 May their sins always remain before(A) the Lord,
    that he may blot out their name(B) from the earth.

Read full chapter

Remember, Lord, what the Edomites(A) did
    on the day Jerusalem fell.(B)
“Tear it down,” they cried,
    “tear it down to its foundations!”(C)

Read full chapter

Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,(A)
    happy is the one who repays you
    according to what you have done to us.

Read full chapter

16 “‘But all who devour(A) you will be devoured;
    all your enemies will go into exile.(B)
Those who plunder(C) you will be plundered;
    all who make spoil of you I will despoil.

Read full chapter

Bible Gateway Recommends