Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

LORD has made himself known. He has executed justice. The wicked man is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

New American Standard Bible

The Lord has made Himself known;
He has executed judgment.
In the work of his own hands the wicked is snared. Higgaion Selah.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

The Lord has revealed Himself;
He has executed justice,
striking down the wicked
by the work of their hands.Higgaion. Selah

International Standard Version

The LORD has made himself known, executing judgment. The wicked are ensnared by what their hands have made. Interlude

American Standard Version

Jehovah hath made himself known, he hath executed judgment: The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah

Amplified


The Lord has made Himself known;
He executes judgment;
The wicked are trapped by the work of their own hands. Higgaion (meditation) Selah.

Bible in Basic English

The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. (Higgaion. Selah.)

Darby Translation

Jehovah is known by the judgment he hath executed: the wicked is ensnared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

Julia Smith Translation

And Jehovah was known by the judgment he did: by the work of his hands the unjust was snared. Meditation. Silence.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Yahweh has made himself known; he has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his hands. Higgaion Selah

Modern King James verseion

Jehovah is known. He has executed judgment; the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. A meditation. Selah.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The LORD is known to execute judgment; the ungodly is trapped in the work of his own hands. Selah.

NET Bible

The Lord revealed himself; he accomplished justice; the wicked were ensnared by their own actions. (Higgaion. Selah)

New Heart English Bible

The LORD has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.

The Emphasized Bible

To be known is Yahweh, by the sentence he hath executed, By the doing of his own hands, is he about to strike down the lawless one. Refunding music. Selah.

Webster

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

World English Bible

Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.

Youngs Literal Translation

Jehovah hath been known, Judgment He hath done, By a work of his hands Hath the wicked been snared. Meditation. Selah.

References

Context Readings

Celebration Of God's Justice

15 The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken. 16 LORD has made himself known. He has executed justice. The wicked man is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah. 17 Wicked men shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.


Cross References

Exodus 7:5

And the Egyptians shall know that I am LORD, when I stretch forth my hand upon Egypt, and bring out the sons of Israel from among them.

Exodus 14:4

And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he shall follow after them, and I will get for me honor upon Pharaoh, and upon all his army, and the Egyptians shall know that I am LORD. And they did so.

Exodus 14:10

And when Pharaoh drew near, the sons of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians were marching after them, and they were very afraid. And the sons of Israel cried out to LORD,

Exodus 14:31

And Israel saw the great work which LORD did upon the Egyptians. And the people feared LORD, and they believed in LORD, and in his servant Moses.

Deuteronomy 29:22-28

And the generation to come, your sons who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the calamities of that land, and the sicknesses with which LORD has made it sick,

Joshua 2:10-11

For we have heard how LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when ye came out of Egypt, and what ye did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.

Judges 1:7

And Adoni-bezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [scraps] under my table. As I have done, so God has requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

1 Samuel 6:19-20

And he smote of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of LORD. He smote of the people fifty thousand and seventy men. And the people mourned, because LORD had smitten the people with a great slaughter.

1 Samuel 17:46

This day LORD will deliver thee into my hand, and I will smite thee, and take thy head from off thee. And I will give the dead bodies of the armies of the Philistines this day to the birds of the heavens, and to the wild beasts of

2 Kings 19:19

Now therefore, O LORD our God, save thou us, I beseech thee, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou LORD are God alone.

2 Kings 19:34-35

For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

Psalm 5:1

Give ear to my words, O LORD, Consider my meditation.

Psalm 11:6

He will rain snares upon sinners. Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.

Psalm 19:14

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my rock, and my redeemer.

Psalm 48:11

Let mount Zion be glad. Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of thy judgments.

Psalm 58:10-11

A righteous man shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,

Psalm 83:17-18

Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever. Yea, let them be confounded and perish,

Psalm 92:3

with an instrument of ten strings, and with the psaltery, with a solemn sound upon the harp.

Psalm 140:9

As for the head of those who encompass me around, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

Proverbs 6:2

thou are snared with the words of thy mouth, thou are taken with the words of thy mouth.

Proverbs 12:13

A wicked man is snared by the transgression of [his] lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

Isaiah 8:15

And many shall stumble on it, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

Isaiah 28:13

Therefore the word of LORD shall be to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little, that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

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