Bible Strands
Psalms 69:24
Pour out Your wrath upon them, and let Your burning anger overtake them.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist addresses God directly, positioning this plea between curses against the enemies’ physical blindness and their future abandonment. The speaker is in a moment of intense lament, requesting divine intervention against persistent oppressors.
The words — זַעְמֶךָ (za'amekha) translates literally to “your indignation,” and חֲרוֹן אַפֶּךָ (charon appekha) means “the burning of your anger.” These terms frame the requested judgment as a deliberate, overwhelming divine response rather than human retaliation.
The thread — The motif of pouring out wrath appears in Psalms 79:6 against unacknowledging nations, Hosea 5:10 against Judah’s corrupt leaders, and Revelation 16:1 as final judgments executed by seven angels.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that persistent rejection of God invites decisive judgment rather than passive endurance. It requires the reader to align with the biblical pattern of awaiting divine justice instead of orchestrating it personally.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
Cross-references
- Psalms 79:6 Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,
- Hosea 5:10 The princes of Judah are like those who move boundary stones; I will pour out My fury upon them like water.
- Revelation 16:1 Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go, pour out on the earth the seven bowls of God’s wrath.”
- Luke 21:22 For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.
- Exodus 15:15 Then the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed; trembling will seize the leaders of Moab; those who dwell in Canaan will melt away,
- Leviticus 26:14 If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,
- Deuteronomy 28:15 If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
- Deuteronomy 29:18 Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,
- Deuteronomy 31:17 On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’
- Deuteronomy 32:20 He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation—children of unfaithfulness.