Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Stand up, O LORD God of Hosts, thou God of Israel, to visit all Heathen; be not merciful unto them that offend of malicious wickedness. Selah.

New American Standard Bible

You, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel,
Awake to punish all the nations;
Do not be gracious to any who are treacherous in iniquity. Selah.

King James Version

Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.

Holman Bible

Lord God of Hosts, You are the God of Israel,
rise up to punish all the nations;
do not show grace to any wicked traitors.Selah

International Standard Version

You, LORD God of the Heavenly Armies, God of Israel, stir yourself up to punish all the nations. Show no mercy to those wicked transgressors. Interlude

A Conservative Version

Even thou, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, arise to visit all the nations. Be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.

American Standard Version

Even thou, O Jehovah God of hosts, the God of Israel, Arise to visit all the nations: Be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah

Amplified


You, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel,
Arise to punish all the nations;
Spare no one and do not be merciful to any who treacherously plot evil. Selah.

Bible in Basic English

You, O Lord God of armies, are the God of Israel; come now and give punishment to the nations; have no mercy on any workers of deceit. (Selah.)

Darby Translation

Yea, do thou, Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, arise to visit all the nations: be not gracious to any plotters of iniquity. Selah.

Julia Smith Translation

And thou Jehovah God of armies, God of Israel, awake to review all the nations: thou wilt not compassionate all covering iniquity. Silence.

King James 2000

You therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to punish all the nations: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And you, Yahweh, God [of] hosts, [are] the God of Israel. Rouse yourself to punish all the nations. Do not be gracious to any [who] treacherously plot evil. Selah

Modern King James verseion

And You, O Jehovah, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the nations; do not be merciful to any plotting evil. Selah.

NET Bible

You, O Lord God, the invincible warrior, the God of Israel, rouse yourself and punish all the nations! Have no mercy on any treacherous evildoers! (Selah)

New Heart English Bible

You, LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah.

The Emphasized Bible

Thou, therefore, O Yahweh, God of hosts, God of Israel, Awake, to visit all the nations, Do not show favour to any iniquitous traitors. Selah.

Webster

Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.

World English Bible

You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah.

Youngs Literal Translation

And Thou, Jehovah, God of Hosts, God of Israel, Awake to inspect all the nations. Favour not any treacherous dealers of iniquity. Selah.

References

Hastings

Context Readings

God Our Stronghold

4 They run and prepare themselves, without my fault; Arise thou therefore to help me, and behold. 5 Stand up, O LORD God of Hosts, thou God of Israel, to visit all Heathen; be not merciful unto them that offend of malicious wickedness. Selah. 6 Let them go to and fro, and run about the city, howling like dogs.


Cross References

Genesis 33:20

And he made there an altar, and there called upon the mighty God of Israel.

Exodus 3:15

And God spake further unto Moses, "Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, 'the LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob hath sent me unto you': this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial throughout all generations.

Exodus 20:5

See that thou neither bow thyself unto them neither serve them: for I, the LORD thy God, am a jealous God, and visit the sin of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:

Psalm 7:12-13

If a man will not turn, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow and made it ready.

Psalm 9:15

The Heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the same net which they hid privily, is their own foot taken.

Psalm 54:3

For strangers are risen up against me; and tyrants, which have not God before their eyes, seek after my soul. Selah.

Psalm 55:15

Let death come hastily upon them, and let them go down quick into hell; for wickedness is among them in their dwellings.

Psalm 80:4

O LORD God of Hosts, how long wilt thou be angry over the prayer of thy people?

Psalm 84:8

O LORD God of Hosts, hear my prayer; hearken, O God of Jacob.

Isaiah 1:10

Hear the word of the LORD, ye tyrants of Sodom, and hearken unto the law of our God, thou people of Gomorrah.

Isaiah 27:11

Their harvest shall be burnt; their wives, which were their beauty when they came forth, shall be defiled. For it is a people without understanding, and therefore he that created them, shall not favour them; and he that made them, shall not be merciful to them.

Jeremiah 18:23

Yet LORD, thou knowest all their counsel that they have devised, to slay me. And therefore forgive them not their wickedness, and let not their sin be put out of thy sight: but let them be judged before thee as the guilty: This shalt thou do unto them in the time of thy indignation.

Ezekiel 18:27-28

And when a wicked turneth from his wickedness and doth justly and righteously, he shall save his soul:

Amos 9:7

O ye children of Israel, are ye not unto me, even as the Ethiopian?" sayeth the LORD, "Have not I brought Israel out of the land of Egypt, the Philistines from Caphthor, and the Syrians from Kir?

Romans 2:28-29

For he is not a Jew, which is a Jew outward. Neither is that thing circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

Romans 9:6

I speak not these things as though the words of God had taken none effect. For they are not all Israelites which came of Israel;

James 2:13

For there shall be judgment, merciless, to him that showeth no mercy, and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.

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