He will bring upon them their own iniquity and destroy them for their wickedness. The LORD our God will destroy them.
Parallel translations
- WEB He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.
- KJV And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.
- NKJV He has brought on them their own iniquity, And shall cut them off in their own wickedness; The Lord our God shall cut them off.
- NASB He has brought back their injustice upon them, And He will destroy them in their evil; The Lord our God will destroy them.
- NLT God will turn the sins of evil people back on them. He will destroy them for their sins. The Lord our God will destroy them.
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Quick answer
God will turn the wicked's own iniquity back on them and cut them off. Their evil will become the instrument of their own destruction.
Overview
The psalm ends with confidence that God will repay the oppressors with the very wickedness they devised. Their sin recoils upon them as God executes righteous judgment. The repeated assurance that 'the LORD our God will cut them off' anchors the believer's hope in God's certain justice, finally accomplished through Christ the Judge (Psalm 7:15-16; Galatians 6:7).
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 7:16His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.
- Prov 14:32The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
- Prov 2:22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
- Ps 55:23But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
- Prov 5:22The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
- 1 Sam 26:10–11David added, “As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.
- Ps 64:8They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.
- Esth 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.
- Ps 9:16–17The LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah
- Ezek 18:24But if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, committing the same abominations as the wicked, will he live? None of the righteous acts he did will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness and sin he has committed, he will die.
- Ps 12:3May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.
- Prov 1:31So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
- Dan 9:26Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.
- Dan 7:24And the ten horns are ten kings who will rise from this kingdom. After them another king, different from the earlier ones, will rise and subdue three kings.
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