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Green's Literal Translation

Psalms 10:15

Break the arm of the wicked and evil one; search out his wickedness until You find none.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Prayer;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Imprecations;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Orphan;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Evil;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Arm;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Fatherless;   Justice;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Arm;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Meekness;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Acrostic;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Arm;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Alexandri;   Psalms;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Break the arm of the wicked, evil person,until you look for his wickedness,but it can’t be found.
Hebrew Names Version
Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.
King James Version
Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
English Standard Version
Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call his wickedness to account till you find none.
New Century Version
Break the power of wicked people. Punish them for the evil they have done.
New English Translation
Break the arm of the wicked and evil man! Hold him accountable for his wicked deeds, which he thought you would not discover.
Amplified Bible
Break the arm of the wicked and the evildoer, Seek out his wickedness until You find no more.
New American Standard Bible
Break the arm of the wicked and the evildoer, Seek out his wickedness until You find none.
World English Bible
Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Breake thou the arme of the wicked and malicious: searche his wickednes, and thou shalt finde none.
Legacy Standard Bible
Break the arm of the wicked and the evildoer,Seek out his wickedness until You find none.
Berean Standard Bible
Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.
Contemporary English Version
Now break the arms of all merciless people. Punish them for doing wrong and make them stop.
Complete Jewish Bible
Break the arm of the wicked! As for the evil man, search out his wickedness until there is none left.
Darby Translation
Break thou the arm of the wicked, and as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness [till] thou find none.
Easy-to-Read Version
Break the arms of those who are wicked and evil. Punish them for the evil they have done, and stop them from doing any more.
George Lamsa Translation
Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man; seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
Good News Translation
Break the power of wicked and evil people; punish them for the wrong they have done until they do it no more.
Lexham English Bible
Break the arm of the wicked, and as for the evil man— seek out his wickedness until you find none.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Breake thou ye arme off the vngodly and malycious, search out the wickednesse which he hath done, that he maye perish.
American Standard Version
Break thou the arm of the wicked; And as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
Bible in Basic English
Let the arm of the sinner and the evil-doer be broken; go on searching for his sin till there is no more.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Break Thou the arm of the wicked; and as for the evil man, search out his wickedness, till none be found.
King James Version (1611)
Breake thou the arme of the wicked, and the euill man: seeke out his wickednes, till thou finde none.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Breake thou the power of the vngodly and malitious: searche thou out his vngodlynes, and thou shalt finde none afterwarde in him.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Break thou the arm of the sinner and wicked man: his sin shall be sought for, and shall not be found.
English Revised Version
Break thou the arm of the wicked; and as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Al to-breke thou the arme of the synnere, and yuel willid; his synne schal be souyt, and it schal not be foundun.
Update Bible Version
Break the arm of the wicked; And as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.
Webster's Bible Translation
Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil [man]: seek out his wickedness [till] thou shalt find none.
New King James Version
Break the arm of the wicked and the evil man; Seek out his wickedness until You find none.
New Living Translation
Break the arms of these wicked, evil people! Go after them until the last one is destroyed.
New Life Bible
Break the arm of the bad and sinful man. Find out all his sins until You find no more.
New Revised Standard
Break the arm of the wicked and evildoers; seek out their wickedness until you find none.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Shatter thou the arm of the lawless one, And, as for the wrongful, wilt thou not enquire for his lawlessness - wilt thou not find it ?
Douay-Rheims Bible
(9-36) Break thou the arm of the sinner and of the malignant: his sin shall be sought, and shall not be found.
Revised Standard Version
Break thou the arm of the wicked and evildoer; seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
Young's Literal Translation
Break the arm of the wicked and the evil, Seek out his wickedness, find none;
THE MESSAGE
Break the wicked right arms, break all the evil left arms. Search and destroy every sign of crime. God 's grace and order wins; godlessness loses.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Break the arm of the wicked and the evildoer, Seek out his wickedness until You find none.

Contextual Overview

12 Arise, O Jehovah! O God, lift up your hand; do not forget the lowly ones. 13 Why does the wicked one despise God? He has said in his heart, You will not demand it . 14 You have seen, for You take note of trouble and vexation, to give back with Your hand. The poor leaves himself to You; You are the helper of the orphan. 15 Break the arm of the wicked and evil one; search out his wickedness until You find none. 16 Jehovah is King forever and ever; the nations have perished out of His land. 17 O Jehovah, You have heard the desire of the humble; You will prepare their heart; Your ear will hear. 18 Judge the orphan and the crushed. No more shall the man of the earth continue to terrify.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Break: Psalms 3:7, Psalms 37:17, Job 38:15, Ezekiel 30:21, Ezekiel 30:22, Zechariah 11:17

seek: Psalms 7:9, 2 Kings 21:12-15, Jeremiah 2:34, Ezekiel 23:48, Zephaniah 1:12

Reciprocal: Job 10:6 - General Job 22:9 - arms Job 35:9 - the arm Job 36:6 - giveth Psalms 5:10 - let Psalms 58:6 - Break their Psalms 146:7 - executeth Isaiah 37:17 - hear Jeremiah 11:20 - revealed Jeremiah 48:25 - and his Habakkuk 1:13 - wherefore Luke 18:7 - avenge

Cross-References

Genesis 10:2
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
Genesis 10:3
And Gomer's sons were Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
Genesis 10:8
And Cush fathered Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the land.
Genesis 10:15
And Canaan fathered his first-born Sidon, and Heth,
Genesis 10:18
and the Arvadite and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. And afterward the families of the Canaanites were dispersed.
Genesis 10:20
These were the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their tongues, in their countries, in their nations.
Genesis 10:21
And to Shem was born, even to him, the father of all the sons of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder.
Genesis 10:24
And Arpachshad fathered Salah; and Salah fathered Eber.
Genesis 23:3
And Abraham rose up from before his dead and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying,
Genesis 49:13
Zebulun shall live at the seashore, and he shall be a haven of ships, even his border beside Sidon.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil [man],.... His power and strength, so that he shall not be able to hold the sword, to strike a blow, or do any hurt to the people of God; see Ezekiel 30:21. This prayer is in some measure already fulfilled in antichrist, the man of sin, or pope of Rome; though his kingdom is not broke to pieces; as it will be when Christ's kingdom shall be more visibly set up, to which reference is had in Psalms 10:16; see Daniel 2:44; yet his strength is weakened, his arm is broken, he has not the power he had, nor can he tyrannise and do the mischief he once did: "but as [for] the evil man" m, for so the words should be read, there being an "athnach" under the word "wicked", which ends the proposition there:

seek out his wickedness [till] thou find none; which designs a thorough search after sin, full punishment of it, and the entire ruin and destruction of the wicked; and the sense is, that God would make a strict inquiry into the wickedness of the man of sin, which he promised himself he would not, Psalms 10:13; and that he would punish him and his followers to the uttermost for it, until there should not be one of the antichristian party found upon earth; with which sense agrees

Psalms 10:16; see Psalms 104:35.

m ורע "improbum quod attinet, requiras", c. Gejerus so Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Break thou the arm of the wicked - The arm is the instrument by which we effect a purpose, and especially in wielding a sword or a spear, as in battle; and if the arm is broken, we are powerless. The psalmist, therefore, prays that God would render the wicked, in this respect, powerless.

And the evil man - Of all the evil, or the wicked. In regard to the prayer here, see the note at Psalms 5:10.

Seek out his wickedness until thou find none - Until it is all punished; until there has been a full recompense. This is a wish that no wicked act of his should be forgotten; that exact justice should be rendered. If it is right to punish the wicked at all, it is right to deal with them just as they deserve; if any wickedness may properly be punished, all may be; and, whatever may occur, the sinner may be assured that he will not be punished merely for a part of his sins. If God punishes the wicked at all, there will be nothing left unpunished.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 10:15. Break thou the arm — Destroy his power, deprive him of his influence, that he may be no longer able to oppress.

Seek out his wickedness till thou find none. — All his public haunts and private ways shall be investigated; thou wilt bring all his villanies to light, and continue to inflict punishment, while there is a crime to punish. Or, "Continue to judge and punish transgressors, till not one is to be found." This agrees with the following verse.


 
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