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.
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.
- 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.
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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 7:16The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
- Prov 14:32The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
- Prov 2:22But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.
- 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.
- Prov 5:22The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
- 1 Sam 26:10–11David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.
- Ps 64:8Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.
- Esth 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.
- Ps 9:16–17Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
- Ezek 18:24“But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.
- Ps 12:3May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,
- Prov 1:31Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.
- Dan 9:26After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and its end shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined.
- Dan 7:24As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom shall ten kings arise: and another shall arise after them; and he shall be diverse from the former, and he shall put down three kings.
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