But the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be uprooted.
Parallel translations
- WEB But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.
- KJV But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
- BSB but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
- NKJV But the wicked will be cut off from the earth, And the unfaithful will be uprooted from it.
- NASB But the wicked will be eliminated from the land, And the treacherous will be torn away from it.
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Quick answer
The wicked and treacherous will be cut off and uprooted from the land. It matters because it warns that persistent wickedness ends in removal and judgment.
Overview
In contrast to verse 21, the wicked face being cut off and uprooted, a reversal of the security promised to the righteous. The two destinies frame the chapter's two ways. This sober conclusion affirms God's just governance and the final separation of the righteous and the wicked.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 52:5God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
- Isa 3:10–11Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
- Deut 7:22Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.
- Ps 37:28For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
- Deut 28:63–64It will happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you. You will be plucked from off of the land where you go in to possess it.
- Prov 10:30The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land.
- Ps 145:20Yahweh preserves all those who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.
- Job 18:16–18His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.
- Prov 5:22–23The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
- Job 21:30that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?
- Ps 37:37–38Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
- Ps 104:35Let sinners be consumed out of the earth. Let the wicked be no more. Bless Yahweh, my soul. Praise Yah!
- Ps 37:22For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.
- Ps 37:20But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish — vanish like smoke.
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