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Psalm 69:24
Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.
22Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.
23Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. Let their backs be continually bent.
24Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.
25Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.
26For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
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“Pour out” begins a fierce prayer for God’s anger to overtake persecutors, words that can unsettle a reader who longs for justice yet fears vengeance.
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Psalm 79:6Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,Both prayers ask God to pour out his anger, with Psalm 79 naming nations and kingdoms that do not acknowledge him.
Hosea 5:10The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.Both describe divine anger being poured out; Hosea compares Judah’s princes to people who remove a landmark.
Revelation 16:1I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!”Both speak of God’s wrath being poured out; the psalm petitions God, while Revelation records a command to seven angels.
Exodus 22:24and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.Both describe fierce divine anger; Exodus spells out its deadly consequences through the sword, widowhood, and fatherless children.
Luke 21:22For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.Both concern judgment: the psalm asks for fierce anger, while Luke names days of vengeance without identifying this particular psalm.
Exodus 15:15Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.Both use language of being overcome: anger overtakes in the psalm, while trembling takes hold of Moab’s mighty men.
Isaiah 13:8They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces …Both describe an overwhelming force seizing people: anger overtakes in the psalm, while pangs and sorrows seize those Isaiah describes.
Deuteronomy 29:18–28lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest …The link is limited: the psalm seeks anger against persecutors, while Deuteronomy warns against hearts turning to other gods.
Leviticus 26:14–46“‘But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments,The link is limited: Leviticus names refusal to obey God, while the psalm asks for his anger against persecutors.
Deuteronomy 32:20–26He said, “I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.Both concern God’s response to wrongdoing: the psalm seeks his anger, while Deuteronomy describes him hiding his face from faithless people.
1 Thessalonians 2:15–16who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,Both passages describe persecution: the psalm seeks anger against persecutors, while Paul names killing and expulsion.
Zechariah 1:6But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of …Both use the word “overtake” for divine judgment: the psalm requests it, while Zechariah records ancestors acknowledging God’s dealings with them.
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