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So that You may grant him relief from the days of adversity, Until a pit is dug for the wicked.
Psalms 94:13 · New American Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.
  • KJV That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged 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.
  • 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).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 16

  • Ps 55:23But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.
  • 2 Pet 2:9the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;
  • Ps 9:15The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
  • Rev 14:13I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”
  • 2 Th 1:7–8and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,
  • Hab 3:16I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.
  • Isa 26:20–21Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.
  • 2 Pet 3:3–7knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,
  • Rev 6:10–11They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
  • 2 Cor 4:17–18For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
  • Ps 49:5Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?
  • Rev 11:18The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”
  • Jer 18:22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hidden snares for my feet.
  • Job 34:29When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation, or to a man,
  • Jer 18:20Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
  • Heb 4:9There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 94:13 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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