Psalms 9:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah”
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“The LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Jehovah hath made himself known, he hath executed judgment: The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. [Higgaion. Selah”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Jehovah hath been known, Judgment He hath done, By a work of his hands Hath the wicked been snared. Meditation. Selah.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 9:16 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 7:5And the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out My hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.”
- Exodus 14:4And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart so that he will pursue them. But I will gain honor by means of Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.” So this is what the Israelites did.
- Exodus 14:10As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up and saw the Egyptians marching after them, and they were terrified and cried out to the LORD.
- Exodus 14:31When Israel saw the great power that the LORD had exercised over the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD and believed in Him and in His servant Moses.
- Deuteronomy 29:22Then the generation to come—your sons who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land—will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the LORD has inflicted on it.
- Joshua 2:10For we have heard how the LORD dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites across the Jordan, whom you devoted to destruction.
- Judges 1:7Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.
- 1 Samuel 6:19But God struck down some of the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the LORD. He struck down seventy men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck them with a great slaughter.
- 1 Samuel 17:46This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand. This day I will strike you down, cut off your head, and give the carcasses of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the creatures of the earth. Then the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.
- 2 Kings 19:19And now, O LORD our God, please save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O LORD, are God.”
- 2 Kings 19:34‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”
- Job 18:9A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.
- Psalms 5:1Give ear to my words, O LORD; consider my groaning.
- Psalms 7:16His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.
- Psalms 11:6On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.
- Psalms 19:14May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.
- Psalms 48:11Mount Zion is glad, the daughters of Judah rejoice, on account of Your judgments.
- Psalms 58:10The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
- Psalms 83:17May they be ever ashamed and terrified; may they perish in disgrace.
- Psalms 92:3with the ten-stringed harp and the melody of the lyre.
- Psalms 140:9May the heads of those who surround me be covered in the trouble their lips have caused.
- Proverbs 6:2if you have been trapped by the words of your lips, ensnared by the words of your mouth,
- Proverbs 12:13An evil man is trapped by his rebellious speech, but a righteous man escapes from trouble.
- Isaiah 8:15Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.”
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