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Psalms 56:7
7Because of their wickedness do not let them escape; in your anger, God, bring the nations down.
Psalms 56:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.
- 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!
- 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 twist my words; all their schemes are for my ruin. 6They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps, hoping to take my life. Because of their wickedness do not let them escape; in your anger, God, bring the nations down. 8Record my misery; list my tears on your scroll— are they not in your record? 9Then my enemies will turn back when I call for help. By this I will 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
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 56:7
- Psalms 94:20Can a corrupt throne be allied with you— a throne that brings on misery by its decrees?
- Ecclesiastes 8:8As no one has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has power over the time of their death. As no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
- Isaiah 28:15You boast, “We have entered into a covenant with death, with the realm of the dead we have made an agreement. When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by, it cannot touch us, for we have made a lie our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”
- Jeremiah 7:10and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say, “We are safe”—safe to do all these detestable things?
- Habakkuk 1:13Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
- Psalms 55:9Lord, confuse the wicked, confound their words, for I see violence and strife in the city.
- Jeremiah 10:25Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the peoples who do not call on your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him completely and destroyed his homeland.
- Jeremiah 18:19Listen to me, Lord; hear what my accusers 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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