New English Translation
Psalms 56:7
7Because they are bent on violence, do not let them escape! In your anger bring down the nations, 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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For their crime will they escape? In wrath cast down the peoples, O God!
- New King James Version (NKJV)Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God!
Context of Psalms 56:7
5All day long they cause me trouble; they make a habit of plotting my demise. 6They stalk and lurk; they watch my every step, as they prepare to take my life. Because they are bent on violence, do not let them escape! In your anger bring down the nations, O God! 8You keep track of my misery. Put my tears in your leather container! Are they not recorded in your scroll? 9My enemies will turn back when I cry out to you for help; I know that God is on my side.
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 94:20Cruel rulers are not your allies, those who make oppressive laws.
- Ecclesiastes 8:8Just as no one has power over the wind to restrain it, so no one has power over the day of his death. Just as no one can be discharged during the battle, so wickedness cannot rescue the wicked.
- Isaiah 28:15For you say, “We have made a treaty with death, with Sheol we have made an agreement. When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by it will not reach us. For we have made a lie our refuge, we have hidden ourselves in a deceitful word.”
- Jeremiah 7:10Then you come and stand in my presence in this temple I have claimed as my own and say, “We are safe!” You think you are so safe that you go on doing all those hateful sins!
- Habakkuk 1:13You are too just to tolerate evil; you are unable to condone wrongdoing. So why do you put up with such treacherous people? Why do you say nothing when the wicked devour those more righteous than they are?
- Psalms 55:9Confuse them, O Lord! Frustrate their plans! For I see violence and conflict in the city.
- Jeremiah 10:25Vent your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you. Vent it on the peoples who do not worship you. For they have destroyed the people of Jacob. They have completely destroyed them and left their homeland in utter ruin.
- Jeremiah 18:19Then I said, “Lord, pay attention to me. Listen to what my enemies are saying.
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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