Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Evil shall slay the wicked,
And those who hate the righteous will be condemned.

King James Version

Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

Holman Bible

Evil brings death to the wicked,
and those who hate the righteous will be punished.

International Standard Version

Evil will kill the wicked; those who hate the righteous will be held guilty.

A Conservative Version

Evil shall kill the wicked, and those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

American Standard Version

Evil shall slay the wicked; And they that hate the righteous shall be condemned.

Amplified


Evil will cause the death of the wicked,
And those who hate the righteous will be held guilty and will be condemned.

Bible in Basic English

Evil will put an end to the sinner, and those who are haters of righteousness will come to destruction.

Darby Translation

Evil shall destroy the wicked; and they that hate the righteous shall bear their guilt.

Julia Smith Translation

Evil shall slay the unjust one: and they hating the just one shall transgress.

King James 2000

Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Evil will slay [the] wicked, and [those who] hate [the] righteous will incur guilt.

Modern King James verseion

Evil shall slay the wicked; and those who hate the righteous shall be held guilty.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But misfortune shall slay the ungodly; and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

NET Bible

Evil people self-destruct; those who hate the godly are punished.

New Heart English Bible

Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

The Emphasized Bible

Misfortune shall be the death of the lawless one, And, the haters of the righteous man, shall be held guilty.

Webster

Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

World English Bible

Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

Youngs Literal Translation

Evil doth put to death the wicked, And those hating the righteous are desolate.

Verse Info

Context Readings

The Lord Delivers The Righteous

20 Jehovah guards all of his bones. Not one of them is broken. 21 Evil shall slay the wicked,
And those who hate the righteous will be condemned.
22 Jehovah protects and redeems his servants. All who take refuge in him will never be condemned.

Cross References

Psalm 94:23

He has turned their wickedness against them. He will destroy them because of their sins. Jehovah our God will destroy them.

Exodus 20:7

Never use the name of Jehovah your God in a false and evil way. Jehovah will make sure that anyone who is false, evil, careless and vain with his name will be punished.

1 Samuel 19:4-5

Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul. You should not commit a sin against your servant David, he said. He has not sinned against you. He has in fact done some very fine things for you.

1 Samuel 31:4

He said to the young man carrying his weapons: Draw your sword and kill me. That way these godless Philistines will not gloat over me and kill me. But the young man was too terrified to do it. So Saul took his own sword and threw himself on it.

1 Kings 22:8

Ahab answered: There is one more, Micaiah son of Imlah. But I hate him because he never prophesies anything good for me, always something bad. The king should not say such things! Jehoshaphat replied.

1 Kings 22:37

They traveled to Samaria and buried the king there.

Psalm 37:12-15

The wicked plots against the righteous and grinds at him with his teeth.

Psalm 37:30-40

The mouth of the righteous reflects on wisdom. His tongue speaks what is fair.

Psalm 40:15

Let those who say to me: Aha! Aha! Be stunned by their shame.

Psalm 89:23

I will beat down his adversaries before him. I will strike those who hate him.

Proverbs 24:16

A righteous man falls seven times and rises up again. but the wicked will fall by evil.

Isaiah 3:11

How horrible it will be for the wicked! Disaster will strike them. What they have done to others will be done to them.

Luke 19:14

His citizens hated him. They sent a spokesman to him saying we do not want this man to rule us.

Luke 19:27

Bring my enemies that do not want me to rule over them and kill them in front of me.

Luke 19:41-44

When he came close to the city he wept over it.

John 7:7

The world has no reason to hate you. But it hates me because I testify that its works are evil.

John 15:18-23

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

1 Thessalonians 2:15-16

They killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out. They did not please God and are contrary to all men.

2 Thessalonians 1:6

It is a righteous thing for God to repay with affliction (great suffering and distress) those who afflict you.

2 Thessalonians 1:9

They will suffer punishment, even eternal destruction from the Lord and from the glory of his might.

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