Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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.

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.

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 Heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the same net which they hid privily, is their own foot taken. 16 The LORD is known to execute judgment; the ungodly is trapped in the work of his own hands. Selah. 17 The wicked must be turned unto hell, and all the people that forget God.


Cross References

Exodus 7:5

And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD when I have stretched forth my hand upon Egypt, and have brought out the children of Israel from among them."

Exodus 14:4

And I will harden his heart, that he shall follow after them, that I may get me honour upon Pharaoh and upon all his host, that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD." And they did even so.

Exodus 14:10

And Pharaoh drew nigh, and when the children of Israel lift up their eyes and saw how the Egyptians followed after them, they were sore afraid and cried out unto the LORD.

Exodus 14:31

And when Israel saw that mighty hand which the LORD had showed upon the Egyptians, they feared the LORD: and believed both the LORD and also his servant Moses.

Deuteronomy 29:22-28

So that the generation to come, of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, say when they see the plagues of that land, and the diseases wherewith the LORD hath smitten it,

Joshua 2:10-11

For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the reed sea before you, when you came out of Egypt, and what you did unto the two kings of the Amorites on the other side Jordan; Sihon, and Og, which ye utterly destroyed.

Judges 1:7

Then Adonibezek said, "Three score and ten kings having their thumbs and great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table wherefore as I have done so God hath done to me again." And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.

1 Samuel 6:19-20

And he plagued the men of Bethshemesh, because they had seen the ark of the LORD. And he slew of the people fifty thousand and three score and ten persons. And the people lamented, because the LORD had slain so great a slaughter of them.

1 Samuel 17:46

This day shall the LORD deliver thee into my hand, and I shall smite thee and take thine head from thee, and will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air and to the beasts of the earth - and all the world shall know that there is a God in Israel.

2 Kings 19:19

Now therefore LORD our God, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know, that thou LORD art God alone."

2 Kings 19:34-35

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

Psalm 5:1

{To the Chanter in Neginoth, a Psalm of David} Ponder my words, O LORD; consider my meditation.

Psalm 11:6

Upon the ungodly he shall rain snares, fire, brimstone, storm and tempest: this shall be their portion to drink.

Psalm 19:14

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

Psalm 48:11

O let the mount Zion rejoice, and the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

Psalm 58:10-11

The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance, and shall wash his feet in the blood of the ungodly.

Psalm 83:17-18

Let them be confounded and vexed ever more and more; let them be put to shame and perish.

Psalm 92:3

upon an instrument of ten strings, upon the lute and with a song upon the harp.

Psalm 140:9

Let the mischief of their own lips fall upon the head of them that compass me about.

Proverbs 6:2

yea, thou art bound with thine own words, and taken with thine own speech.

Proverbs 12:13

The wicked falleth into the snare through the malice of his own mouth; but the just shall escape out of peril.

Isaiah 8:15

And many shall stumble, fall, and be broken upon him: yea they shall be snared and taken."

Isaiah 28:13

And therefore the LORD shall answer their stubbornness, lesson upon lesson, commandment upon commandment, rule upon rule, instruction upon instruction, here a little, there a little. That they may go forth, fall backward, be bruised, snared, and taken.

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