That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
Parallel translations
- WEB that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.
- BSB to grant him relief from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.
- NKJV That You may give him rest from the days of adversity, Until the pit is dug for the wicked.
- NASB So that You may grant him relief from the days of adversity, Until a pit is dug for the wicked.
- NLT You give them relief from troubled times until a pit is dug to capture the wicked.
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Quick answer
God's discipline gives rest from days of trouble while the wicked await their judgment. The disciplined believer finds peace even as evil heads toward its end.
Overview
God's teaching steadies the believer through adversity, granting inner rest while the 'pit' is prepared for the wicked. This contrasts the secure tranquility of the godly with the looming downfall of the oppressor. Such rest is fully realized in Christ, who gives rest to the weary and assures final justice (Matthew 11:28-29).
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- Ps 55:23But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
- 2 Pet 2:9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
- Ps 9:15The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
- Rev 14:13And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
- 2 Th 1:7–8And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
- Hab 3:16When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.
- Isa 26:20–21Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
- 2 Pet 3:3–7Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
- Rev 6:10–11And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
- 2 Cor 4:17–18For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
- Ps 49:5Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?
- Rev 11:18And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
- Jer 18:22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
- Job 34:29When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:
- Jer 18:20Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
- Heb 4:9There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
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