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But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.
Psalms 125:5 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.
  • KJV As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
  • NKJV As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, The Lord shall lead them away With the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel!
  • NASB But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, The Lord will lead them away with those who practice injustice. Peace be upon Israel.
  • NLT But banish those who turn to crooked ways, O Lord. Take them away with those who do evil. May Israel have peace!

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Quick answer

Those who turn to crooked ways are removed with evildoers, while peace is invoked on Israel. It warns that persistent rebellion ends in judgment, but God's people rest in His peace.

Overview

The psalm closes by contrasting the upright with apostates who twist their paths toward evil, who will share the fate of the workers of iniquity. Yet the final word is a blessing of peace on Israel. This peace finds its fullness in Christ, the Prince of Peace, who reconciles His people to God.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 23

  • Isa 59:8The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.
  • Prov 2:15whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.
  • Ps 128:6that you may see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!
  • Gal 6:16Peace and mercy to all who walk by this rule, even to the Israel of God.
  • Ps 40:4Blessed is the man who has made the LORD his trust, who has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.
  • Ps 101:3I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.
  • Matt 7:23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’
  • John 14:27Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled; do not be afraid.
  • Phil 2:15so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world
  • Ps 94:4They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast.
  • Prov 14:14The backslider in heart receives the fill of his own ways, but a good man is rewarded for his ways.
  • Zeph 1:6and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”
  • Jer 2:19Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
  • Isa 54:13Then all your sons will be taught by the LORD, and great will be their prosperity.
  • 1 Chr 10:13–14So Saul died for his unfaithfulness to the LORD, because he did not keep the word of the LORD and even consulted a medium for guidance,
  • Heb 10:38But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”
  • Hos 2:18On that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that crawl on the ground. And I will abolish bow and sword and weapons of war in the land, and will make them lie down in safety.
  • Ps 92:7that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
  • Isa 54:10Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
  • 1 Pet 1:2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
  • Ezek 37:26And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary among them forever.
  • Matt 24:48–51But suppose that servant is wicked and says in his heart, ‘My master will be away a long time.’
  • Job 23:11My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 125:5 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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