Psalms 139:19
O God, that You would slay the wicked— away from me, you bloodthirsty men—
BSB
ASV
Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: Depart from me therefore, ye bloodthirsty men.
KJV
Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God,.... Since he is God omniscient, and knows where they are, what they have done, are doing, and design to do; and God omnipresent, at hand to lay hold upon them; and God omnipotent, to hold them and inflict due punishment on them; this is a consequence rightly drawn from the above perfections of God.
Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God. There can be no doubt upon that head, for thou hast seen all their transgressions, which indeed have been done in thy presence; and thou hast long enough endured their provocations, which have been so openly manifest before thee. Crimes committed before the face of the Judge are not likely to go unpunished. If the eye of God is grieved with the presence of evil, it is but natural to expect that he will remove the offending object. God who sees all evil will slay all evil.
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The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 9:17The wicked will return to Sheol— all the nations who forget God.
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But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This…
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Psalms 6:8Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard my weeping.
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Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’
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And he will answer, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers.’
The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.
Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may obey the commandments of my God.
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Isaiah 11:4but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the…
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And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath…
And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival.
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Psalms 119:115Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may obey the commandments of my God.
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Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
