The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
- BSB The LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah
- NKJV The Lord is known by the judgment He executes; The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah
- NASB The Lord has made Himself known; He has executed judgment. A wicked one is ensnared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion Selah
- NLT The Lord is known for his justice. The wicked are trapped by their own deeds. Quiet Interlude
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God is known by the justice He executes, snaring the wicked in their own works. God reveals His character through righteous judgment.
Overview
David declares that Yahweh makes Himself known precisely by judging righteously, with the wicked trapped by their own deeds. The musical notations 'Higgaion' and 'Selah' invite reflective pause on this truth. God's self-revelation through justice culminates in the cross and final judgment, where His righteousness is fully displayed.
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- Exod 7:5And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
- Prov 12:13The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
- Ps 83:17–18Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
- Exod 14:31And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses.
- Exod 14:4And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they did so.
- Judg 1:7And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
- Josh 2:10–11For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
- Isa 8:15And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
- Ps 5:1Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.
- 1 Sam 6:19–20And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
- Prov 6:2Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
- Exod 14:10And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.
- Deut 29:22–28So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;
- 2 Kgs 19:34–35For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
- Ps 11:6Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
- Ps 48:11Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
- 1 Sam 17:46This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
- Ps 58:10–11The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
- 2 Kgs 19:19Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only.
- Ps 19:14Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
- Isa 28:13But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
- Ps 140:9As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
- Ps 92:3Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.
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