Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Requite them according to their work and according to the evil of their practices;
Requite them according to the deeds of their hands;
Repay them their recompense.

King James Version

Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.

Holman Bible

Repay them according to what they have done—
according to the evil of their deeds.
Repay them according to the work of their hands;
give them back what they deserve.

International Standard Version

Reward them according to their deeds; according to the evil of their actions. Reward them based on what they do; give them what they deserve.

A Conservative Version

Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them after the operation of their hands. Render to them their recompense,

American Standard Version

Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings: Give them after the operation of their hands; Render to them their desert.

Amplified


Repay them according to their work and according to the evil of their practices;
Repay them according to the deeds of their hands;
Repay them what they deserve.

Bible in Basic English

Give them the right reward of their acts, and of their evil doings: give them punishment for the works of their hands, let them have their full reward.

Darby Translation

Give them according to their doing, and according to the wickedness of their deeds; give them after the work of their hands, render to them their desert.

Julia Smith Translation

Give to them according to their work and according to the evil of their doings, according to the word of their hands; give to them, turn back to them their recompense.

King James 2000

Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors: give them after the work of their hands; render to them what they deserve.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Give to them according to their work, even according to the evil of their deeds. Give to them according to the work of their hands; repay them their rightful due.

Modern King James verseion

Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their practices, give them according to the work of their hands; give them what they deserve.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Reward them according to their deeds and wickedness of their own inventions. Recompense them after the works of their hands; pay them that they have deserved.

NET Bible

Pay them back for their evil deeds! Pay them back for what they do! Punish them!

New Heart English Bible

Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.

The Emphasized Bible

Give them, according to their deed, and, according to the wrong of their practices, - According to the work of their own hands, give thou unto them, Bring back their own dealing to themselves.

Webster

Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.

World English Bible

Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.

Youngs Literal Translation

Give to them according to their acting, And according to the evil of their doings. According to the work of their hands give to them. Return their deed to them.

Verse Info

Context Readings

My Strength

3 Do not drag me away with the wicked and with troublemakers who speak of peace with their neighbors but have evil in their hearts. 4 Requite them according to their work and according to the evil of their practices;
Requite them according to the deeds of their hands;
Repay them their recompense.
5 Jehovah will tear them down and never build them up again. This is because they never consider what he has done or what his hands have made.


Cross References

2 Timothy 4:14

Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: God will render to him according to his works.

Revelation 18:6

Render to her even as she rendered to you. Pay back double to her, double according to her works: in the cup that she has filled, fill double for her!

Psalm 62:12

Loving-kindness belongs to you, O Jehovah. You reward a person based on what he has done.

Ezra 9:13

After all this and because of our evil-doing and our great sin, and seeing that the punishment that you, O God, have given us, is less than the measure of our sins, and that you have kept from death those of us who are here;

Psalm 2:1-5

Why do the nations conspire together and rage? Why do the peoples plot in vain?

Psalm 5:10

Pronounce them guilty, O God. Let them fall by their own devices. In the multitude of their transgressions thrust them out, because they are rebellious against you.

Psalm 21:10

You will destroy their children from the earth and their offspring from among the sons of man.

Psalm 59:12-13

This is because of the sins from their mouths and the words on their lips. Let them be trapped by their own arrogance because they speak curses and lies.

Psalm 69:22-24

Let their table before them become a snare. Let it become retribution and a trap.

Psalm 103:3-4

He forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases.

Psalm 103:10

He has not dealt with us according to our sins. He has not requited us according to our iniquities.

Psalm 109:17-21

He loved to put curses on others, so he, too, was cursed. He did not like to bless others, so he never received a blessing.

Jeremiah 18:21-23

Therefore, give their children over to famine and deliver them up to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed. Let their men also be smitten to death and their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

Ezekiel 38:10

The Lord Jehovah says: 'It will come about on that day, that thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil plan.

Romans 2:6-8

He will render to each according to his works.

Romans 11:22

Observe both God's kindness and severity. Severity is for those who fail to continue. But kindness is for you as long as you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you will be cut off.

Revelation 22:12

Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give to every man according as his work.

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