Every morning I will remove all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off every evildoer from the city of the LORD.
Parallel translations
- WEB Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land; to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh’s city.
- KJV I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.
- NKJV Early I will destroy all the wicked of the land, That I may cut off all the evildoers from the city of the Lord.
- NASB Every morning I will destroy all the wicked of the land, So as to eliminate from the city of the Lord all those who do injustice.
- NLT My daily task will be to ferret out the wicked and free the city of the Lord from their grip.
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Quick answer
Each morning David will cut off the wicked from the city of the LORD. He pursues justice diligently and persistently.
Overview
The psalm closes with the king's resolve to root out evildoers from God's city, doing justice continually ('morning by morning'). This expresses zeal to keep the Lord's city pure and righteous. It anticipates the final cleansing of God's city by Christ, when all evil is removed and the righteous dwell with Him.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 75:10“All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous will be exalted.”
- Jer 21:12O house of David, this is what the LORD says: ‘Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor, or My wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of their evil deeds.
- Prov 16:12Wicked behavior is detestable to kings, for a throne is established through righteousness.
- Ps 48:8As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD of Hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish her forever. Selah
- Ps 46:4There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.
- Rev 22:14–15Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.
- Prov 20:8A king who sits on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes.
- Prov 20:26A wise king separates out the wicked and drives the threshing wheel over them.
- Ps 48:2Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.
- Mic 3:9Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right,
- Rev 21:27But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
- Hos 9:3They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.
- Mic 2:8–10But of late My people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from unsuspecting passersby like men returning from battle.
- Mic 3:1–4Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?
- Ps 118:10–12All the nations surrounded me, but in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
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