Psalms 94:23

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“He will bring upon them their own iniquity and destroy them for their wickedness. The LORD our God will destroy them.”

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BSBPD

“He will bring upon them their own iniquity and destroy them for their wickedness. The LORD our God will destroy them.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity, And will cut them off in their own wickedness; Jehovah our God will cut them off.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And turneth back on them their iniquity, And in their wickedness cutteth them off; Jehovah our God doth cut them off!”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 94:23 — 20 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Judges 9:57And God also brought all the wickedness of the men of Shechem back upon their own heads. So the curse of Jotham son of Jerubbaal came upon them.
  2. 1 Samuel 26:10David added, “As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.
  3. 2 Kings 19:7Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.’”
  4. Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.
  5. Esther 9:25But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
  6. Psalms 7:16His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.
  7. Psalms 9:16The LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah
  8. Psalms 12:3May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.
  9. Psalms 55:23But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
  10. Psalms 64:8They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.
  11. Psalms 109:20May this be the LORD’s reward to my accusers, to those who speak evil against me.
  12. Proverbs 1:31So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
  13. Proverbs 2:22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
  14. Proverbs 5:22The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
  15. Proverbs 5:23He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.
  16. Proverbs 14:32The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
  17. Jeremiah 36:31I will punish him and his descendants and servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the residents of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the calamity about which I warned them but they did not listen.”
  18. Ezekiel 18:24But if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, committing the same abominations as the wicked, will he live? None of the righteous acts he did will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness and sin he has committed, he will die.
  19. Daniel 7:24And the ten horns are ten kings who will rise from this kingdom. After them another king, different from the earlier ones, will rise and subdue three kings.
  20. Daniel 9:26Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.

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