You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
- BSB You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life.
- 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‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,’ says Yahweh; ‘and I will repay you in this plot of ground,’ says Yahweh. Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot of ground, according to Yahweh’s word.”
- Nah 1:14Yahweh has commanded concerning you: “No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, will I cut off the engraved image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile.”
- Jer 36:31I will punish him and his offspring and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring on them, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they didn’t listen.”’”
- Jer 26:19Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Didn’t he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh relented of the disaster which he had pronounced against them? We would commit great evil against our own souls that way!”
- 2 Kgs 10:7When the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and killed them, even seventy people, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezreel.
- 1 Kgs 2:23Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.
- Prov 8:36But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”
- Prov 1:18but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
- Isa 14:20–22You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be named forever.
- Isa 33:11You will conceive chaff. You will give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.
- Hab 2:16You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink, and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh’s right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.
- Num 16:38even the censers of these sinners against their own lives. Let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before Yahweh. Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel.”
- Matt 27:25All the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!”
- Jer 22:30Yahweh says, “Record this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his offspring prosper, sitting on David’s throne, and ruling in Judah.”
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