Psalms 125:5

Psalms 125:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
• New International Version (NIV)But those who turn to crooked ways the Lord will banish with the evildoers. Peace be on Israel.
• New King James Version (NKJV)As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, The Lord shall lead them away With the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel!
• New Living Translation (NLT)But banish those who turn to crooked ways, O Lord. Take them away with those who do evil. May Israel have peace!

Context of Psalms 125:5

3For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the land allotted to the righteous, lest the righteous stretch out their hands to do wrong. 4Do good, O Lord, to those who are good, and to those who are upright in their hearts! But those who turn aside to their crooked ways the Lord will lead away with evildoers! Peace be upon Israel!

Psalms 125:5 word by word

וְהַמַּטִּ֤ים עַֽקַלְקַלּוֹתָ֗ם יוֹלִיכֵ֣ם יְ֭הוָה אֶת־פֹּעֲלֵ֣י הָאָ֑וֶן שָׁ֝ל֗וֹם עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• As for such as turn asideנָטָהnâţâh · to stretchH5186
• unto their crooked waysעֲקַלְקַל‛ăqalqal · crookedH6128
• the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• shall lead them forthיָלַךְyâlak · to walkH3212
• with the workersפָּעַלpâ‛al · to workH6466
• of iniquityאָ֫וֶן'âven · evil: wickednessH205
• peaceשָׁלוֹםshâlôm shâlôm · peaceH7965
• upon Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyiώrâ'êl · IsraelH3478

Cross-references for Psalms 125:5

• Psalms 40:4Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie!
• Psalms 101:3I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.
• 1 Chronicles 10:13So Saul died for his breach of faith. He broke faith with the Lord in that he did not keep the command of the Lord, and also consulted a medium, seeking guidance.
• Proverbs 14:14The backslider in heart will be filled with the fruit of his ways, and a good man will be filled with the fruit of his ways.
• Jeremiah 2:19Your evil will chastise you, and your apostasy will reprove you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the Lord your God; the fear of me is not in you, declares the Lord God of hosts.
• Zephaniah 1:6those who have turned back from following the Lord, who do not seek the Lord or inquire of him."
• Hebrews 10:38but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."
• Proverbs 2:15men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
• Isaiah 59:8The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace.
• Philippians 2:15that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
• Matthew 7:23And then will I declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.'
• Matthew 24:48But if that wicked servant says to himself, 'My master is delayed,'
• Psalms 128:6May you see your children's children! Peace be upon Israel!
• Isaiah 54:10For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed," says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
• Ezekiel 37:26I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore.
• Hosea 2:18And I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety.

Commentaries on Psalms 125:5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5As for such as turn aside - Who are not faithful; who give way to sin; who backslide, and walk in a crooked way, widely different from the straight way of the upright, ישרים yesharim, the straight in heart; they shall be led forth to punishment with the common workers of iniquity. Thus thy Church will be purified, and thy peace rest upon thy true Israel. Let him that readeth understand.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways - The wicked. Those who leave the right or straight path, and wander in forbidden ways. The word here rendered “crooked ways” occurs nowhere else except in Judges 5:6, where it is rendered “by-ways,” meaning unfrequented paths or roads; narrow and crooked paths, remote from the highways, or the ways commonly traversed. Hence, the word means also paths of sin - as deviations from the straight road which man…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 4-5Verses 4-5 God's promises should quicken our prayers. The way of holiness is straight; there are no windings or shiftings in it. But the ways of sinners are crooked. They shift from one purpose to another, and turn hither and thither to deceive; but disappointment and misery shall befal them. Those who cleave to the ways of God, though they may have trouble in their way, their end shall be peace. The pleading of their Saviour for them, secures to them the…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-5People who do not follow the "straight paths" are foolish (Proverbs 2:12–15). God gives his goodness to the godly (see Psalm 122:6–9).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. Those who turn aside (under temptation) permanently show that they are hypocrites, and their lot or portion shall be with the wicked (Psa 28:3). crooked ways--(Compare De 9:16; Mal 2:8, 9). their--is emphatic; the "crooked ways" proceed from their own hearts. The true Israel is here distinguished from the false. Scripture everywhere opposes the Jewish delusion that mere outward descent would save (Ro 2:28, 29; 9:6, 7; Ga 6:16). The byways of sin from…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Psalms 125

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• The Treasury of David
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings