You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life.
Parallel translations
- WEB You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.
- KJV Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
- NKJV You give shameful counsel to your house, Cutting off many peoples, And sin against your soul.
- NASB “You have planned a shameful thing for your house By bringing many peoples to an end; So you are sinning against yourself.
- NLT But by the murders you committed, you have shamed your name and forfeited your lives.
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Quick answer
By destroying many peoples, the oppressor has actually brought shame on his own house and forfeited his life. It shows that wickedness ultimately ruins the one who practices it.
Overview
What the plunderer intended as gain and glory becomes shame, and his violence against others is sin against his own soul. The pursuit of security through bloodshed proves self-destructive. This sobering truth, that sin recoils upon the sinner, reminds us that no scheme of injustice can finally prosper, for God ensures that the wicked reap what they sow.
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- 2 Kgs 9:26‘As surely as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday, declares the LORD, so will I repay you on this plot of ground, declares the LORD.’ Now then, according to the word of the LORD, pick him up and throw him on the plot of ground.”
- Nah 1:14The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.”
- Jer 36:31I will punish him and his descendants and servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the residents of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the calamity about which I warned them but they did not listen.”
- Jer 26:19Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death? Did Hezekiah not fear the LORD and seek His favor, and did not the LORD relent of the disaster He had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great harm on ourselves!”
- 2 Kgs 10:7And when the letter arrived, they took the sons of the king and slaughtered all seventy of them. They put their heads in baskets and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.
- 1 Kgs 2:23Then King Solomon swore by the LORD: “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if Adonijah has not made this request at the expense of his life.
- Prov 8:36But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”
- Prov 1:18But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.
- Isa 14:20–22You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.
- Isa 33:11You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you.
- Hab 2:16You will be filled with shame instead of glory. You too must drink and expose your uncircumcision! The cup in the LORD’s right hand will come around to you, and utter disgrace will cover your glory.
- Num 16:38As for the censers of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, hammer them into sheets to overlay the altar, for these were presented before the LORD, and so have become holy. They will serve as a sign to the Israelites.”
- Matt 27:25All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
- Jer 22:30This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule again in Judah.”
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