Psalm 56:7 “In spite of such sin, will they escape? In Your anger, O God, cast dow…”

Psalm 56:7

In spite of such sin, will they escape? In Your anger, O God, cast down the nations.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.

World English Bible

Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.

American Standard Version

Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God.

Geneva Bible 1599

They thinke they shall escape by iniquitie: O God, cast these people downe in thine anger.

Darby Translation

Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God.

Young's Literal Translation

By iniquity they escape, In anger the peoples put down, O God.

Bible in Basic English

By evil-doing they will not get free from punishment. In wrath, O God, let the peoples be made low.

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Cross references

“escape”

Ecclesiastes 8:8 Isaiah 28:15 Jeremiah 7:10 Habakkuk 1:13 Psalm 94:20 Psalm 94:21

Ecclesiastes 8:8 · BSB

As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

Isaiah 28:15 · BSB

For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hidi…

Jeremiah 7:10 · BSB

and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?

Habakkuk 1:13 · BSB

Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?

Psalm 94:20 · BSB

Can a corrupt throne be Your ally— one devising mischief by decree?

Psalm 94:21 · BSB

They band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.

“in thine”

Psalm 55:23 Psalm 55:9 Psalm 55:15 Jeremiah 10:25 Jeremiah 18:19–23

Psalm 55:23 · BSB

But 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.

Psalm 55:9 · BSB

O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.

Psalm 55:15 · BSB

Let death seize them by surprise; let them go down to Sheol alive, for evil is with them in their homes.

Jeremiah 10:25 · BSB

Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homel…

Jeremiah 18:19–23 · BSB

Attend to me, O LORD. Hear what my accusers are saying!

Also

Psalm 36:12

Psalm 36:12 · BSB

There the evildoers lie fallen, thrown down and unable to rise.

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

In context

6They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.

8You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle— are they not in Your book?

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