Parallel Verses

Amplified


Evil will cause the death of the wicked,
And those who hate the righteous will be held guilty and will be condemned.

New American Standard Bible

Evil shall slay the wicked,
And those who hate the righteous will be condemned.

King James Version

Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

Holman Bible

Evil brings death to the wicked,
and those who hate the righteous will be punished.

International Standard Version

Evil will kill the wicked; those who hate the righteous will be held guilty.

A Conservative Version

Evil shall kill the wicked, and those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

American Standard Version

Evil shall slay the wicked; And they that hate the righteous shall be condemned.

Bible in Basic English

Evil will put an end to the sinner, and those who are haters of righteousness will come to destruction.

Darby Translation

Evil shall destroy the wicked; and they that hate the righteous shall bear their guilt.

Julia Smith Translation

Evil shall slay the unjust one: and they hating the just one shall transgress.

King James 2000

Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Evil will slay [the] wicked, and [those who] hate [the] righteous will incur guilt.

Modern King James verseion

Evil shall slay the wicked; and those who hate the righteous shall be held guilty.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But misfortune shall slay the ungodly; and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

NET Bible

Evil people self-destruct; those who hate the godly are punished.

New Heart English Bible

Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

The Emphasized Bible

Misfortune shall be the death of the lawless one, And, the haters of the righteous man, shall be held guilty.

Webster

Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

World English Bible

Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

Youngs Literal Translation

Evil doth put to death the wicked, And those hating the righteous are desolate.

Verse Info

Context Readings

The Lord Delivers The Righteous

20
He keeps all his bones;
Not one of them is broken.
21 
Evil will cause the death of the wicked,
And those who hate the righteous will be held guilty and will be condemned.
22
The Lord redeems the soul of His servants,
And none of those who take refuge in Him will be condemned.


Cross References

Psalm 94:23


He has turned back their own wickedness upon them
And will destroy them by means of their own evil;
The Lord our God will wipe them out.

Exodus 20:7

“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain [that is, irreverently, in false affirmations or in ways that impugn the character of God]; for the Lord will not hold guiltless nor leave unpunished the one who takes His name in vain [disregarding its reverence and its power].

1 Samuel 19:4-5

Then Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, “May the king not sin against his servant David, since he has not sinned against you, and since his deeds have been very beneficial to you.

1 Samuel 31:4

Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword and pierce me through with it, otherwise these uncircumcised [Philistines] will come and pierce me through and abuse and mock me.” But his armor bearer would not, because he was terrified [of doing such a thing]. So Saul took his sword and fell on it.

1 Kings 22:8

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is one more man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the Lord, but I hate him, because he never prophesies good news for me, but only evil.” But Jehoshaphat said, “May the king not say that [Micaiah only tells bad news].”

1 Kings 22:37

So the king died and was brought to Samaria, and they buried the king in Samaria.

Psalm 37:12-15


The wicked plots against the righteous
And gnashes at him with his teeth.

Psalm 37:30-40


The mouth of the righteous proclaims wisdom,
And his tongue speaks justice and truth.

Psalm 40:15


Let those be appalled and desolate because of their shame
Who say to me, “Aha, aha [rejoicing in my misfortune]!”

Psalm 89:23


“I will crush his adversaries before him,
And strike those who hate him.

Proverbs 24:16


For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again,
But the wicked stumble in time of disaster and collapse.

Isaiah 3:11


Woe (judgment is coming) to the wicked! It shall go badly with him,
For what his hand has done shall be done to him.

Luke 19:14

But his citizens [the residents of his new kingdom] hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to be a king over us.’

Luke 19:27

[The king ended by saying,] ‘But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them, bring them here and kill them in my presence.’”

Luke 19:41-44

As He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it [and the spiritual ignorance of its people],

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you [since you are part of it], but it does hate Me because I denounce it and testify that its deeds are evil.

John 15:18-23

“If the world hates you [and it does], know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

1 Thessalonians 2:15-16

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and harassed and drove us out; and [they] continue to be highly displeasing to God and [to show themselves] hostile to all people,

2 Thessalonians 1:6

For after all it is only just for God to repay with distress those who distress you,

2 Thessalonians 1:9

These people will pay the penalty and endure the punishment of everlasting destruction, banished from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,

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