Psalm 9:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

Known

Wicked

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Bible References

Known

Let Mount Zion rejoice, Let the daughters of Judah exult, Because of thy judgments.

The righteous man will rejoice when he hath seen an avenging, His feet, will he bathe in the blood of the lawless one: -

Let them turn pale, and be terrified to futurity, Yea let them blush, and perish:

And the Egyptians shall know that I, am Yahweh, when I have stretched forth my hand over Egypt, - and brought forth the sons of Israel out of their midst.

So will I let the heart of Pharaoh wax bold, and he will pursue them, that I may get me honour over Pharaoh, and over all his forces, and the Egyptians shall know, that I, am Yahweh. And they did so.

So that the generation coming after - your sons who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come in from a far-off land, will say - when they see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses thereof wherewith Yahweh hath made it sick:

For we have heard how Yahweh, dried up, the waters of the Red Sea from before you, when ye came forth out of Egypt, - and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites who were over the Jordan unto Sihon and unto Og, whom ye devoted to destruction;

Then said Adoni-bezek - Seventy kings, with their thumbs and great toes cut off, have been picking up crumbs under my table, as I have done, so, hath God requited me. And they brought him into Jerusalem, and he died there.

And, when he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they looked into the ark of Yahweh, yea smote of the people seventy men and fifty thousand men, the people mourned, for that Yahweh had smitten the people with a great smiting.

This day, will Yahweh deliver thee into my hand, and I will smite thee, and take thy head from off thee, and will give thy dead body and the dead bodies of the host of Philistines, this day, unto the birds of heaven, and unto the wild beasts of the earth, - that all the earth may know that Israel hath a God;

Now, therefore, O Yahweh our God, save us we pray thee, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know, that, thou, Yahweh, art God, alone!

Wicked

He will rain upon the lawless live-coals, Fire and brimstone and a burning wind, are the portion of their cup.

As for the head of them who surround me, Let the mischief of their lips cover them:

Thou hast been snared by the sayings of thy mouth, - thou hast been caught by the sayings of thy mouth.

By the transgression of the lips, is the wicked man, ensnared, but the righteous, cometh out of distress.

And many, shall stumble among them, - and fall and be torn, and snared, and captured.

So the word of Yahweh must be to them - Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line, A little here, a little there, - That they may go and fall backward and be torn and snared and captured.

General references

But, Amasa, was wallowing in blood, in the midst of the highway, - and, when the man saw that all the people stood still, he moved Amasa, out of the highway into the field, and cast over him a garment, as soon as he saw that every man that came up to him stood still.

Yet, they, for their own blood, lie in wait, They watch in secret for their own life.

So shall they know that, I, am Yahweh By my dispersing them among the nations, And scattering them throughout the lands.

Thus will I execute judgments on Egypt; And they shall know that l am Yahweh.