Proverbs 2:22 “but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will…”

Proverbs 2:22

but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

World English Bible

But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

American Standard Version

But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.

Geneva Bible 1599

But the wicked shalbe cut off from ye earth, and the transgressours shalbe rooted out of it.

Darby Translation

but the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful shall be plucked up out of it.

Young's Literal Translation

And the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!

Bible in Basic English

But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.

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Cross references

“the wicked”

Psalm 52:5 Psalm 37:28 Psalm 145:20 Job 18:16–18 Job 21:30 Psalm 104:35

Psalm 52:5 · BSB

Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

Psalm 37:28 · BSB

For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.

Psalm 145:20 · BSB

The LORD preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.

Job 18:16–18 · BSB

The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

Job 21:30 · BSB

Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.

Psalm 104:35 · BSB

May sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul. Hallelujah!

“rooted”

Deuteronomy 7:22 Deuteronomy 28:64

Deuteronomy 7:22 · BSB

The LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be enabled to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals would multiply around you.

Deuteronomy 28:64 · BSB

Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

Also

Proverbs 10:30 Deuteronomy 28:63–64

Proverbs 10:30 · BSB

The righteous will never be shaken, but the wicked will not inhabit the land.

Deuteronomy 28:63–64 · BSB

Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so also it will please Him to annihilate you and destroy you. And you will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

21For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;

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