Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
Requite them according to the deeds of their hands;
Repay them their
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
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,
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.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 28:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
My Strength
3 Draw me not away with the wicked, And with the workers of iniquity; That speak peace with their neighbors, But mischief is in their hearts. 4 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. 5 Because they regard not the works of Jehovah, Nor the operation of his hands, He will break them down and not build them up.
Cross References
2 Timothy 4:14
Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord will render to him according to his works:
Revelation 18:6
Render unto her even as she rendered, and double unto her the double according to her works: in the cup which she mingled, mingle unto her double.
Psalm 62:12
Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth lovingkindness; For thou renderest to every man according to his work.
Ezra 9:13
And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such a remnant,
Psalm 2:1-5
Why do the nations rage, And the peoples meditate a vain thing?
Psalm 5:10
Hold them guilty, O God; Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions; For they have rebelled against thee.
Psalm 21:10
Their fruit wilt thou destroy from the earth, And their seed from among the children of men.
Psalm 59:12-13
For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, Let them even be taken in their pride, And for cursing and lying which they speak.
Psalm 69:22-24
Let their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, let it become a trap.
Psalm 103:3-4
Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth all thy diseases;
Psalm 103:10
He hath not dealt with us after our sins, Nor rewarded us after our iniquities.
Psalm 109:17-21
Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.
Jeremiah 18:21-23
Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men smitten of the sword in battle.
Ezekiel 38:10
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: It shall come to pass in that day, that things shall come into thy mind, and thou shalt devise an evil device:
Romans 2:6-8
who will render to every man according to his works:
Romans 11:22
Behold then the goodness and severity of God: toward them that fell, severity; but toward thee, God's goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
Revelation 22:12
Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to render to each man according as his work is.