Psalm 28:4 “Repay them according to their deeds and for their works of evil. Repay…”

Psalm 28:4

Repay them according to their deeds and for their works of evil. Repay them for what their hands have done; bring back on them what they deserve.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.

World English Bible

Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.

American Standard Version

Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings: Give them after the operation of their hands; Render to them their desert.

Geneva Bible 1599

Reward them according to their deedes, and according to the wickednes of their inuentions: recompense them after the woorke of their handes: render them their reward.

Darby Translation

Give them according to their doing, and according to the wickedness of their deeds; give them after the work of their hands, render to them their desert.

Young's Literal Translation

Give to them according to their acting, And according to the evil of their doings. According to the work of their hands give to them. Return their deed to them.

Bible in Basic English

Give them the right reward of their acts, and of their evil doings: give them punishment for the works of their hands, let them have their full reward.

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Cross references

“Give”

2 Timothy 4:14 Revelation 18:6 Psalm 5:10 Psalm 69:22–24 Jeremiah 18:21–23 Psalm 59:12

2 Timothy 4:14 · BSB

Alexander the coppersmith did great harm to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds.

Revelation 18:6 · BSB

Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her own cup.

Psalm 5:10 · BSB

Declare them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own devices. Drive them out for their many transgressions, for they have rebelled against You.

Psalm 69:22–24 · BSB

May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap.

Jeremiah 18:21–23 · BSB

Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in…

Psalm 59:12 · BSB

By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.

“and”

Psalm 2:1–5 Ezekiel 38:10 Psalm 21:10

Psalm 2:1–5 · BSB

Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

Ezekiel 38:10 · BSB

This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

Psalm 21:10 · BSB

You will wipe their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from the sons of men.

“the work”

Psalm 109:17–21 Psalm 103:10 Romans 11:22 Psalm 62:12 Romans 2:6–8 Psalm 103:3

Psalm 109:17–21 · BSB

The cursing that he loved, may it fall on him; the blessing in which he refused to delight, may it be far from him.

Psalm 103:10 · BSB

He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities.

Romans 11:22 · BSB

Take notice, therefore, of the kindness and severity of God: severity to those who fell, but kindness to you, if you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.

Psalm 62:12 · BSB

and loving devotion to You, O Lord. For You will repay each man according to his deeds.

Romans 2:6–8 · BSB

God “will repay each one according to his deeds.”

Psalm 103:3 · BSB

He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,

“render”

Ezra 9:13

Ezra 9:13 · BSB

After all that has come upon us because of our evil deeds and our great guilt (though You, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such a remnant as this),

Also

Revelation 22:12

Revelation 22:12 · BSB

“Behold, I am coming soon, and My reward is with Me, to give to each one according to what he has done.

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

In context

3Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while malice is in their hearts.

5Since they show no regard for the works of the LORD or what His hands have done, He will tear them down and never rebuild them.

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