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Psalm 104:35

Let sinners be consumed out of the earth. Let the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, my soul. Praise the LORD!

33I will sing to the LORD as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.
34Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in the LORD.
35Let sinners be consumed out of the earth. Let the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, my soul. Praise the LORD!
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The plea for sinners to be consumed makes a sharp turn from rejoicing in God, then ends with praise, leaving destruction and worship in the same breath.

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Where else Scripture says this

11 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 62:5My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.Both speakers address their own souls, directing them toward God through waiting in Psalm 62 and praise in Psalm 104.
Psalm 104:1Bless the LORD, my soul. The LORD, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty.The words “Bless the LORD, my soul” appear at both ends of Psalm 104, framing the psalm with praise.
Revelation 19:1–2After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God;Both passages proclaim praise to God, with Revelation expanding the voice of praise to a great multitude in heaven.
Proverbs 2:22But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.Both speak of the wicked being removed from the land or earth, one as a declaration and one as a prayer.
Psalm 103:22–104:1Praise the LORD, all you works of his, in all places of his dominion. Praise the LORD, my soul!Both endings direct the speaker’s own soul to praise the LORD, joining personal worship to a wider summons.
Psalm 106:48Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting! Let all the people say, “Amen.” Praise the LORD!Both passages close with “Praise the LORD!” after words of blessing directed toward him.
Job 38:13that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?Both passages picture the wicked removed from the earth, using the language of shaking out in Job and consumption in the psalm.
Isaiah 13:9Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.Both speak of sinners being destroyed from the earth or land; Isaiah names the LORD’s wrath as the setting.
Judges 5:31“So let all your enemies perish, LORD, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.Both contain a prayer for people to perish, naming them as the wicked in the psalm and the LORD’s enemies in Judges.
Judges 4:16But Barak pursued the chariots and the army to Harosheth of the Gentiles; and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword. There was not a man left.Both speak of people being wiped out, though Judges records a battle and the psalm voices a prayer.
Isaiah 1:28But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed.Both use the word “consumed” for the destruction of sinners, with Isaiah also naming those who forsake the LORD.
Where this verse fits

Injustice and anger. praise and worship. sermon or Bible study notes.

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Encouragement

This closing prayer seeks the destruction of sinners within a song of praise to the Creator. Judgment belongs to God; these words grant no permission for personal violence.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).