Psalm 34:16
New International Version
but the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to blot out their name from the earth.

New Living Translation
But the LORD turns his face against those who do evil; he will erase their memory from the earth.

English Standard Version
The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Berean Standard Bible
But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.

King James Bible
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

New King James Version
The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

New American Standard Bible
The face of the LORD is against evildoers, To eliminate the memory of them from the earth.

NASB 1995
The face of the LORD is against evildoers, To cut off the memory of them from the earth.

NASB 1977
The face of the LORD is against evildoers, To cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Legacy Standard Bible
The face of Yahweh is against evildoers, To cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Amplified Bible
The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, To cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Christian Standard Bible
The face of the LORD is set against those who do what is evil, to remove all memory of them from the earth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The face of the LORD is set against those who do what is evil, to erase all memory of them from the earth.

American Standard Version
The face of Jehovah is against them that do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The face of LORD JEHOVAH is against the evil, to blot out their remembrance from the Earth.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to destroy their memorial from the earth. The righteous cried, and the Lord hearkened to them,

Contemporary English Version
But God despises evil people, and he will wipe them all from the earth, till they are forgotten.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the countenance of the Lord is against them that do evil things: to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

English Revised Version
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The LORD confronts those who do evil in order to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.

Good News Translation
but he opposes those who do evil, so that when they die, they are soon forgotten.

International Standard Version
The face of the LORD is set against those who do evil, and he will remove people's recollection of them from the earth.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

Literal Standard Version
(The face of YHWH [is] on doers of evil, | To cut off their memorial from earth.)

Majority Standard Bible
But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.

New American Bible
The LORD’s face is against evildoers to wipe out their memory from the earth.

NET Bible
But the LORD opposes evildoers and wipes out all memory of them from the earth.

New Revised Standard Version
The face of the LORD is against evildoers, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

New Heart English Bible
The LORD's face is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Webster's Bible Translation
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

World English Bible
Yahweh’s face is against those who do evil, to cut off their memory from the earth.

Young's Literal Translation
(The face of Jehovah is on doers of evil, To cut off from earth their memorial.)

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Taste and See that the LORD is Good
15The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry. 16But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to wipe out all memory of them from the earth. 17The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears; He delivers them from all their troubles.…

Cross References
1 Peter 3:12
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."

Leviticus 17:10
If anyone from the house of Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any blood, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from among his people.

Job 18:17
The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.

Job 24:20
The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree.

Psalm 5:4
For You are not a God who delights in wickedness; no evil can dwell with You.

Psalm 9:6
The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished.

Psalm 11:4
The LORD is in His holy temple; the LORD is on His heavenly throne. His eyes are watching closely; they examine the sons of men.


Treasury of Scripture

The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

face

Leviticus 17:10
And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 26:17
And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.

Jeremiah 44:11
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.

to cut

Psalm 10:16
The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.

Job 18:17
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

Proverbs 10:7
The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

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1. David praises God, and exhorts others thereto by his experience
8. They are blessed who trust in God
11. He exhorts to the fear of God
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(16) To cut off.--Notice the fear, so intense and recurring to the Semitic mind, of the extinction of race. (Comp. Psalm 21:10; Job 18:17, &c)

This verse, according to the sense, should certainly change places with Psalm 34:15. This would disarrange the acrostic, bringing pe before ayin; but, as in Lamentations 2, 3, 4 the same sequence of letters occurs, we are led to the conclusion that the order of the alphabet was not definitely or invariably fixed in respect of these two letters, a license intelligible enough when we remember that tsadde, which follows pe, was often interchanged with ayin, which precedes it.

Verse 16. - The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. Conversely, God turns away his face from the wicked, and punishes them by causing their very memory to perish from among men (comp. Job 18:17; Psalm 109:13; Proverbs 10:7). The natural wish for continuance, which causes men to build themselves monuments, and erect other great works, and delight in offspring, and seek to establish their families, and create entails, and have their portraits taken, and "call the lands after their own names" (Psalm 49:11), was especially strong in the Hebrew race, and made the threat that their remembrance should be cut off peculiarly terrible to them.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
[But] the face
פְּנֵ֣י (pə·nê)
Noun - common plural construct
Strong's 6440: The face

of the LORD
יְ֭הוָה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

is against
בְּעֹ֣שֵׂי (bə·‘ō·śê)
Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's 6213: To do, make

those who do evil,
רָ֑ע (rā‘)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil

to sever
לְהַכְרִ֖ית (lə·haḵ·rîṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's 3772: To cut, to destroy, consume, to covenant

their memory
זִכְרָֽם׃ (ziḵ·rām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 2143: A memento, recollection, commemoration

from the earth.
מֵאֶ֣רֶץ (mê·’e·reṣ)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land


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