English Standard Version
Psalms 56:7
7For their crime will they escape? In wrath cast down the peoples, O God!
Psalms 56:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.
- New International Version (NIV)Because of their wickedness do not let them escape; in your anger, God, bring the nations down.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God!
- New Living Translation (NLT)Don’t let them get away with their wickedness; in your anger, O God, bring them down.
Context of Psalms 56:7
5All day long they injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil. 6They stir up strife, they lurk; they watch my steps, as they have waited for my life. For their crime will they escape? In wrath cast down the peoples, O God! 8You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book? 9Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call. This I know, that God is for me.
Read all of Psalms 56Psalms 56:7 word by word
עַל־אָ֥וֶן אֵין פַּלֶּט־לָ֑מוֹ בְּ֝אַ֗ף עַמִּ֤ים׀ הוֹרֵ֬ד אֱלֹהִֽים׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 56:7
- Psalms 94:20Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who frame injustice by statute?
- Ecclesiastes 8:8No man has power to retain the spirit, or power over the day of death. There is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.
- Isaiah 28:15Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement, when the overwhelming whip passes through it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter";
- Jeremiah 7:10and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, 'We are delivered!'—only to go on doing all these abominations?
- Habakkuk 1:13You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?
- Psalms 55:9Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.
- Jeremiah 10:25Pour out your wrath on the nations that know you not, and on the peoples that call not on your name, for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
- Jeremiah 18:19Hear me, O Lord, and listen to the voice of my adversaries.
Commentaries on Psalms 56:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Shall they escape by iniquity? - Shall such conduct go unpunished? Shall their address, their dexterity in working iniquity, be the means of their escape? No. "In anger, O God, wilt thou cast down the people."Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Shall they escape by iniquity? - This expression in the original is very obscure. There is in the Hebrew no mark of interrogation; and a literal rendering would be, “By iniquity (there is) escape to them;” and, according to this, the sense would be, that they contrived to escape from just punishment by their sins; by the boldness of their crimes; by their wicked arts. The Septuagint renders it, “As I have suffered this for my life, thou wilt on no account…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-7The psalmist specifies his charge against his attackers as he prays for their evil to end.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. Shall they escape? &c.--or better, "Their escape is by iniquity." cast ... people--humble those who so proudly oppose Thy servant.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 56
- 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
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