Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

To give rest to him from days of evil, While a pit is digged for the wicked.

New American Standard Bible

That You may grant him relief from the days of adversity,
Until a pit is dug for the wicked.

King James Version

That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

Holman Bible

to give him relief from troubled times
until a pit is dug for the wicked.

International Standard Version

keeping him calm when times are troubled until a pit has been dug for the wicked.

A Conservative Version

that thou may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for a wicked man.

American Standard Version

That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, Until the pit be digged for the wicked.

Amplified


That You may grant him [power to calm himself and find] peace in the days of adversity,
Until the pit is dug for the wicked and ungodly.

Bible in Basic English

So that you may give him rest from the days of evil, till a hole is made ready for the destruction of the sinners.

Darby Translation

That thou mayest give him rest from the days of evil, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

Julia Smith Translation

To give rest to him from the days of evil, till the pit shall be dug for the unjust

King James 2000

That you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

Lexham Expanded Bible

to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.

Modern King James verseion

that You may give him rest from the days of trouble, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

that thou mayest give him patience in time of adversity, until the pit be digged up for the ungodly.

NET Bible

in order to protect him from times of trouble, until the wicked are destroyed.

New Heart English Bible

that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

The Emphasized Bible

That thou mayest give him rest from the days of misfortune, Until there be digged - for the lawless one - a pit.

Webster

That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

World English Bible

that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁקט 
Shaqat 
Usage: 41

from the days
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

until the pit
שׁחת 
Shachath 
Usage: 23

be digged
כּרה 
Karah 
Usage: 16

Context Readings

A Prayer For Retribution Against Oppressors

12 O the happiness of the man Whom Thou instructest, O Jah, And out of Thy law teachest him, 13 To give rest to him from days of evil, While a pit is digged for the wicked. 14 For Jehovah leaveth not His people, And His inheritance forsaketh not.

Cross References

Psalm 55:23

And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I -- I do trust in Thee!

Psalm 9:15

Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured.

Habakkuk 3:16

I have heard, and my belly trembleth, At the noise have my lips quivered, Rottenness doth come into my bones, And in my place I do tremble, That I rest for a day of distress, At the coming up of the people, he overcometh it.

2 Peter 2:9

The Lord hath known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep,

Revelation 14:13

And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, 'Write: Happy are the dead who in the Lord are dying from this time!' 'Yes, (saith the Spirit,) That they may rest from their labours -- and their works do follow them!'

Job 34:29

And He giveth rest, and who maketh wrong? And hideth the face, and who beholdeth it? And in reference to a nation and to a man, It is the same.

Psalm 49:5

Why do I fear in days of evil? The iniquity of my supplanters doth compass me.

Isaiah 26:20-21

Come, My people, enter into thy inner chambers, And shut thy doors behind thee, Hide thyself shortly a moment till the indignation pass over.

Jeremiah 18:20

Is evil recompensed instead of good, That they have dug a pit for my soul? Remember my standing before Thee to speak good of them, To turn back Thy wrath from them.

Jeremiah 18:22

A cry is heard from their houses, For Thou bringest against them suddenly a troop, For they dug a pit to capture me, And snares they have hidden for my feet.

2 Corinthians 4:17-18

for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us --

2 Thessalonians 1:7-8

and to you who are troubled -- rest with us in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with messengers of his power,

Hebrews 4:9

there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God,

2 Peter 3:3-7

this first knowing, that there shall come in the latter end of the days scoffers, according to their own desires going on,

Revelation 6:10-11

and they were crying with a great voice, saying, 'Till when, O Master, the Holy and the True, dost Thou not judge and take vengeance of our blood from those dwelling upon the land?'

Revelation 11:18

and the nations were angry, and Thine anger did come, and the time of the dead, to be judged, and to give the reward to Thy servants, to the prophets, and to the saints, and to those fearing Thy name, to the small and to the great, and to destroy those who are destroying the land.'

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