Those far from You will surely perish; You destroy all who are unfaithful to You.
Parallel translations
- WEB For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.
- KJV For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
- NKJV For indeed, those who are far from You shall perish; You have destroyed all those who desert You for harlotry.
- NASB For, behold, those who are far from You will perish; You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to You.
- NLT Those who desert him will perish, for you destroy those who abandon you.
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Those far from God will perish, for he destroys all who are unfaithful to him.
Overview
Asaph states the sober counterpart to his hope: distance from God ends in destruction. Unfaithfulness, pictured as spiritual adultery, leads to ruin. This solemn warning underscores that true life is found only in nearness to God, a nearness reconciled and restored through Christ (Ephesians 2:13).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Jas 4:4You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
- Ps 119:155Salvation is far from the wicked because they do not seek Your statutes.
- Exod 34:15Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.
- Num 15:39These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.
- Rev 17:1–5Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters.
- Ps 106:39They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
- Isa 29:13Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.
- Job 21:14–15Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
- Eph 2:17He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.
- Eph 2:13But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.
- Jer 12:2You planted them, and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from their hearts.
- Matt 15:7–8You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you:
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