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.
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.
- BSB He will bring upon them their own iniquity and destroy them for their wickedness. The LORD our God will destroy them.
- 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
Cross-references · 14
- Ps 7:16His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
- Prov 14:32The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
- Prov 2:22But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
- 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.
- Prov 5:22His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
- 1 Sam 26:10–11David said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.
- Ps 64:8So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
- Esth 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.
- Ps 9:16–17The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
- Ezek 18:24But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
- Ps 12:3The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
- Prov 1:31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
- Dan 9:26And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
- Dan 7:24And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
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