Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard my weeping.
Parallel translations
- WEB Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.
- KJV Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.
- NKJV Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity; For the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping.
- NASB ¶Leave me, all you who practice injustice, For the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping.
- NLT Go away, all you who do evil, for the Lord has heard my weeping.
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Quick answer
David turns from weeping to confidence, telling evildoers to depart because the Lord has heard him. Assurance that God hears transforms lament into hope.
Overview
A dramatic shift occurs: David dismisses the workers of iniquity because he is certain the Lord has heard his weeping. Jesus uses these very words against the workers of iniquity in His warning about the last day (Matthew 7:23), underscoring God's vindication of His own. The verse shows that prayer offered in tears does not go unheard.
Cross-references & the web
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- Luke 13:27And he will answer, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers.’
- Ps 145:18The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.
- Ps 119:115Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may obey the commandments of my God.
- Ps 3:4To the LORD I cry aloud, and He answers me from His holy mountain. Selah
- Matt 7:23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’
- Heb 5:7During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.
- Matt 25:41Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
- Ps 139:19O God, that You would slay the wicked—away from me, you bloodthirsty men—
- Isa 30:19O people in Zion who dwell in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. He will surely be gracious when you cry for help; when He hears, He will answer you.
- Ps 116:8For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.
- Isa 38:3saying, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
- Isa 38:5“Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
- Ps 56:8You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle—are they not in Your book?
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