Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.
Parallel translations
- WEB Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.
- BSB Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard 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 13:27But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
- Ps 145:18The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.
- Ps 119:115Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
- Ps 3:4I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
- Matt 7:23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
- Heb 5:7Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
- Matt 25:41Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
- Ps 139:19Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
- Isa 30:19For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
- Ps 116:8For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
- Isa 38:3And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
- Isa 38:5Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
- Ps 56:8Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
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