Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD—the final verse of the chapter calls for God's pursuit and destruction of the enemies, echoing God's pursuit of the speaker earlier in the chapter. The phrase "under the heavens of the LORD" specifies that this is in God's realm, under God's sovereignty. Theologically, the final verse suggests that divine justice ultimately involves the destruction of the enemies; there is no escape from God's judgment. The call for pursuit mirrors how the speaker was pursued; yet now the enemies are to be pursued by God. The final verse of the great middle chapter ends not in mercy but in the petition for justice and the destruction of oppressors, suggesting that mercy and justice together characterize God's ultimate action.

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