Parallel Verses
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.
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,
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 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, who speak peace to their neighbors, yet evil is in their hearts. 4 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. 5 Because they do not pay attention to the works of Jehovah and to the work of His hands, He shall destroy them and never build them up.
Cross References
2 Timothy 4:14
Alexander the coppersmith showed many evil things to me. The Lord will give back to him according to his works.
Revelation 18:6
Reward her as she has rewarded you, and double to her double, according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix double to her.
Psalm 62:12
Also to You, O Jehovah, belongs mercy; for You give to every man according to his work.
Ezra 9:13
And after all that has come on us for our evil deeds and for our great sin, since You our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such an escape as this,
Psalm 2:1-5
Why do the nations rage, and the peoples meditate on a vain thing?
Psalm 5:10
Hold them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against You.
Psalm 21:10
Their fruit shall You destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the sons of men.
Psalm 59:12-13
For the sin of their mouth is the word of their lips, even let them be taken in their pride; and for cursing and the lying which they speak.
Psalm 69:22-24
Let their table become a snare before them; and to those at ease a trap.
Psalm 103:3-4
who forgives all your iniquities; who heals all your diseases;
Psalm 103:10
He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
Psalm 109:17-21
Yea, he loved cursing, so let it come to him; he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.
Jeremiah 18:21-23
Therefore deliver up their sons to the famine, and give them over to the hand of the sword. And let their wives be bereaved, and widows, and their men be slain of death; let their young men be struck by the sword in battle.
Ezekiel 38:10
So says the Lord Jehovah: And it shall be in that day that things shall come into your heart, and you shall devise an evil plan.
Romans 2:6-8
who will render to each according to his works;
Romans 11:22
Behold then the kindness, and the severity of God; on those having fallen, severity; but on you, kindness, if you continue in the kindness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.
Revelation 22:12
And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to each according as his work is.