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King James Version

Psalms 28:4

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.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Prayer;   Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - Destruction;   Iniquity;   Rendering;   Wickedness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Hands, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - David;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Quotations;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - After;   Bible, the;   Deed;   Operation;   Wickedness;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Give them the punishment they so richly deserve! Measure it out in proportion to their wickedness. Pay them back for all their evil deeds! Give them a taste of what they have done to others.
English Revised 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.
Update Bible 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.
New Century Version
Pay them back for what they have done, for their evil deeds. Pay them back for what they have done; give them their reward.
New English Translation
Pay them back for their evil deeds! Pay them back for what they do! Punish them!
Webster's Bible Translation
Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors: 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.
Amplified Bible
Repay them according to their work and according to the evil of their practices; Repay them according to the deeds of their hands; Repay them what they deserve.
English Standard Version
Give to them according to their work and according to the evil of their deeds; give to them according to the work of their hands; render them their due reward.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Yyue thou to hem vpe the werkis of hem; and vpe the wickidnesse of her fyndyngis. Yyue thou to hem vpe the werkis of her hondis; yelde thou her yeldyng to hem.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
Contemporary English Version
Treat them as they deserve! Punish them for their sins.
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.
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.
Complete Jewish Bible
Pay them back for their deeds, as befits their evil acts; repay them for what they have done, give them what they deserve.
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.
Easy-to-Read Version
They do bad things to others, so make bad things happen to them. Give them the punishment they deserve.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Give them according to their deeds, and according to the evil of their endeavours;
King James Version (1611)
Giue them according to their deedes, and according to the wickednes of their endeuours: giue them after the worke of their handes, render to them their desert.
New Life Bible
Pay them for their work and for the sins they do. Pay them for the works of their hands. Give them what they have earned.
New Revised Standard
Repay them according to their work, and according to the evil of their deeds; repay them according to the work of their hands; render them their due reward.
Geneva Bible (1587)
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.
George Lamsa Translation
Reward them according to their deeds and according to their evil doings.
Good News Translation
Punish them for what they have done, for the evil they have committed. Punish them for all their deeds; give them what they deserve!
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Give them, according to their deed, and, according to the wrong of their practices, - According to the work of their own hands, give thou unto them, Bring back their own dealing to themselves.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(27-4) Give them according to their works, and according to the wickedness of their inventions. According to the works of their hands give thou to them: render to them their reward.
Revised Standard Version
Requite them according to their work, and according to the evil of their deeds; requite them according to the work of their hands; render them their due reward.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Rewarde them accordyng to their deedes: and according to the wickednes of their owne inuentions. Recompence them after the worke of their handes: pay them home that they haue deserued.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Give them according to their works, and according to the wickedness of their devices: give them according to the works of their hands; render their recompense unto them.
Christian Standard Bible®
Repay them according to what they have done—according to the evil of their deeds.Repay them according to the work of their hands;give them back what they deserve.
Hebrew Names Version
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.
Lexham English Bible
Give to them according to their work, even according to the evil of their deeds. Give to them according to the work of their hands; repay them their rightful due.
Literal Translation
Give to them according to their deeds and according to the evil of their practices; as is the work of their hands, give to them, repay their deeds to them.
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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Rewarde them acordinge to their dedes and wickednesse of their owne inuencions.
New American Standard Bible
Give back to them according to their work and according to the evil of their practices; Give back to them according to the work of their hands; Repay them what is due them.
New King James Version
Give them according to their deeds, And according to the wickedness of their endeavors; Give them according to the work of their hands; Render to them what they deserve.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Requite them according to their work and according to the evil of their practices; Requite them according to the deeds of their hands; Repay them their recompense.
Legacy Standard Bible
Give to them according to their work and according to the evil of their actions;Give to them according to the deeds of their hands;Return their dealings upon them.

Contextual Overview

1 Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. 2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle. 3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts. 4 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. 5 Because they regard not the works of the Lord , nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Give: Psalms 5:10, Psalms 59:12, Psalms 59:13, Psalms 69:22-24, Jeremiah 18:21-23, 2 Timothy 4:14, Revelation 18:6

and: Psalms 2:1-5, Psalms 21:10, Ezekiel 38:10

the work: Psalms 62:12, Psalms 103:10, Psalms 109:17-21, Psalms 103:3, Psalms 103:4, Romans 2:6-8, Romans 11:22

render: Ezra 9:13

Reciprocal: Judges 9:20 - let fire come out 2 Samuel 3:39 - the Lord 1 Kings 8:39 - give to every man Psalms 25:10 - the paths Isaiah 3:11 - for the reward Isaiah 26:10 - and will not Lamentations 3:64 - General Romans 11:9 - a recompense Revelation 20:12 - according

Cross-References

Genesis 12:7
And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord , who appeared unto him.
Genesis 28:1
And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
Genesis 28:3
And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
Genesis 28:5
And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
Genesis 28:6
When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughers of Canaan;
Genesis 28:7
And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;
Genesis 28:8
And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
Genesis 28:9
Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
Genesis 28:12
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
Genesis 28:13
And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Give them according to their deeds,.... According to the demerit of them, which is death, even death eternal;

and according to the wickedness of their endeavours; for though wicked men do not always succeed; yet their want of success does not excuse their wickedness;

give them after the work of their hands; see 2 Timothy 4:14;

render to them their desert; what their iniquities, in thought, word, and deed, deserve: such petitions are not contrary to that Christian charity which the Gospel recommends; nor do they savour of a spirit of revenge, which is condemned by the word of God; for it should be observed, that these things are said with respect to men given up to a reprobate mind; and that the psalmist does not seek to avenge himself, nor to gratify his own mind; but he sought the glory of God, and moreover spoke by a prophetic spirit, knowing what was the will of God in this case; see Psalms 28:5; and therefore these petitions of his are not to be drawn into an example in common and ordinary cases.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Give them according to their deeds - Deal righteously with them. Recompense them as they deserve.

And according to the wickedness of their endeavours - Their designs; their works; their plans.

Give them after the work of their hands - Reward them according to what they do.

Render to them their desert - A just recompense. This whole verse is a prayer that God would deal “justly” with them. There is no evidence that there is anything of vindictiveness or malice in the prayer. In itself considered, there is no impropriety in praying that “justice” may be done to the violators of law. See the general introduction, section 6.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 28:4. Give them — Is the same as thou wilt give them; a prophetic declaration of what their lot will be.


 
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