Psalms 56:7

In 11 translations

BSB

In spite of such sin, will they escape? In Your anger, O God, cast down the nations.Or do not let them escape; MT does not include do not.

KJV

Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.

WEB

Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.

ASV

Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God.

LSV

They escape by iniquity, || In anger put down the peoples, O God.

YLT

By iniquity they escape, In anger the peoples put down, O God.

DBY

Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God.Elohim

DRC55:8

For nothing shalt thou save them: in thy anger thou shalt break the people in pieces, O God,

GNV

They thinke they shall escape by iniquitie: O God, cast these people downe in thine anger.

JPS56:8

Because of iniquity cast them out; in anger bring down the peoples, O God.

LXXE55:8

Thou wilt on no account save them; thou wilt bring down the people in wrath.

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WLC56:8

עַל־אָ֥וֶן פַּלֶּט־לָ֑מוֹ בְּ֝אַ֗ף עַמִּ֤ים ׀ הוֹרֵ֬ד אֱלֹהִֽים׃KJV:Ps.56.7

LXX-Br55:8

Ὑπὲρ τοῦ μηθενὸς σώσεις αὐτοὺς ἐν ὀργῇ λαοὺς κατάξεις· ὁ Θεὸς

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• Psalms 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.
• Psalms 55:15Let death seize them by surprise; let them go down to Sheol alive, for evil is with them in their homes.
• Jeremiah 18:19–23Attend to me, O LORD. Hear what my accusers are saying! Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.…
• Isaiah 28:15For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our…
• Psalms 55:9O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.
• Psalms 36:12There the evildoers lie fallen, thrown down and unable to rise.
• Ecclesiastes 8:8As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
• Jeremiah 7:10and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?
• Psalms 94:20–21Can a corrupt throne be Your ally— one devising mischief by decree? They band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.
• Jeremiah 10:25Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his…
• Habakkuk 1:13Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?

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