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New Living Translation

Psalms 94:21

They gang up against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Rulers;   Thompson Chain Reference - Battle of Life;   Blood;   Enemies;   Innocent Blood;   Soul's Enemies;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Condemn;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
They band together against the life of the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.
Geneva Bible (1587)
They gather them together against the soule of the righteous, and condemne the innocent blood.
Christian Standard Bible®
They band together against the life of the righteousand condemn the innocent to death.
Hebrew Names Version
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.
Easy-to-Read Version
They attack those who do right. They say innocent people are guilty and put them to death.
Amplified Bible
They band themselves together against the life of the righteous And condemn the innocent to death.
American Standard Version
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.
Contemporary English Version
who gang up to murder innocent victims.
Complete Jewish Bible
They band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.
King James Version (1611)
They gather themselues together against the soule of the righteous: and condemne the innocent blood.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They will hunt for the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.
English Revised Version
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
Berean Standard Bible
They band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.
Lexham English Bible
They band together against the life of the righteous, and declare the blameless guilty of blood.
Literal Translation
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the blood of the innocent.
New Century Version
They join forces against people who do right and sentence to death the innocent.
New English Translation
They conspire against the blameless, and condemn to death the innocent.
New King James Version
They gather together against the life of the righteous, And condemn innocent blood.
New Life Bible
They join together against the life of those who are right and good. They send those who are not guilty to their death.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
They make an attack on the life of the righteous one, - And, innocent blood, they condemn.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(93-21) They will hunt after the soul of the just, and will condemn innocent blood.
George Lamsa Translation
They lay snares to trap the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
Good News Translation
who plot against good people and sentence the innocent to death.
New American Standard Bible
They band themselves together against the life of the righteous And condemn the innocent to death.
King James Version
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
They flocke together agaynst the soule of the ryghteous: and condemne the innocent blood.
New Revised Standard
They band together against the life of the righteous, and condemn the innocent to death.
Darby Translation
They band together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei schulen take ayens the soule of a iust man; and thei schulen condempne innocent blood.
Young's Literal Translation
They decree against the soul of the righteous, And innocent blood declare wicked.
World English Bible
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.
Revised Standard Version
They band together against the life of the righteous, and condemn the innocent to death.
Update Bible Version
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.
Webster's Bible Translation
They assemble themselves against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
Bible in Basic English
They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They gather them together agaynst the soule of the rightuous, & condemne the innocent bloude.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They band themselves together against the life of the righteous And condemn the innocent to death.
Legacy Standard Bible
They band themselves together against the life of the righteousAnd condemn the innocent to death.

Contextual Overview

12 Joyful are those you discipline, Lord , those you teach with your instructions. 13 You give them relief from troubled times until a pit is dug to capture the wicked. 14 The Lord will not reject his people; he will not abandon his special possession. 15 Judgment will again be founded on justice, and those with virtuous hearts will pursue it. 16 Who will protect me from the wicked? Who will stand up for me against evildoers? 17 Unless the Lord had helped me, I would soon have settled in the silence of the grave. 18 I cried out, "I am slipping!" but your unfailing love, O Lord , supported me. 19 When doubts filled my mind, your comfort gave me renewed hope and cheer. 20 Can unjust leaders claim that God is on their side— leaders whose decrees permit injustice? 21 They gang up against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

gather: Psalms 2:1-3, Psalms 22:16, Psalms 59:3, Proverbs 1:11, Proverbs 1:16, Matthew 27:1, Acts 4:5-7, Acts 4:27, Acts 4:28

condemn: Exodus 23:7, 1 Kings 21:19, Proverbs 17:15, Jeremiah 26:15, Ezekiel 22:6, Ezekiel 22:12, Ezekiel 22:27, Matthew 23:32-36, Acts 7:52, Acts 7:58-60, James 5:6, Revelation 17:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 37:18 - conspired Genesis 49:6 - come Deuteronomy 19:10 - General Deuteronomy 24:17 - pervert Job 16:10 - gathered Psalms 56:7 - escape Psalms 140:8 - Grant not Ecclesiastes 3:16 - General Isaiah 5:23 - take Isaiah 10:1 - them Jeremiah 22:3 - neither Ezekiel 33:26 - and shall Daniel 6:15 - Know Amos 6:12 - for Habakkuk 1:4 - for Matthew 12:7 - condemned Matthew 26:3 - assembled Matthew 26:59 - sought John 7:24 - General John 8:15 - judge John 19:13 - and sat Acts 26:12 - with Ephesians 5:11 - no

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They gather themselves together,.... As "in troops" h, as the word signifies; in great armies; so the antichristian kings and states will, at the instigation of Popish emissaries; see

Revelation 16:17,

against the soul of the righteous; or "the life" of them; in order to take away their lives; to cut them off, root and branch, and destroy at once the whole interest of Christ; for it will be to make war with him, and them his followers, who are the righteous here meant, made so by his righteousness, that they will be gathered together in such great numbers:

and condemn the innocent blood; condemn innocent persons to death, shed their blood, and drink it, and to such a degree as to be drunk with it; for in them will be found the blood of the prophets and saints, and of all that are slain on earth, Revelation 17:6.

h יגודו "turmatim conveniunt", Vatablus, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous - Against the life of the righteous; that is, to take their lives. The Hebrew word rendered “gather together,” means to press or crowd upon anyone; to rush in crowds or troops. It would refer particularly to a tumultuous gathering - “a mob” - intent on accomplishing its purpose.

And condemn the innocent blood - literally, make guilty; that is, they hold that blood to be guilty; or, they treat the innocent as if they were guilty.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 94:21. They gather themselves together — In every thing that is evil, they are in unity. The devil, his angels, and his children, all join and draw together when they have for their object the destruction of the works of the Lord. But this was particularly the case with respect to the poor Jews among the Babylonians: they were objects of their continual hatred, and they laboured for their destruction.

This and the following verses have been applied to our Lord, and the treatment he met with both from his own countrymen and from the Romans. They pretended to "judge him according to the law, and framed mischief against him;" they "assembled together against the life of the righteous one," and "condemned innocent blood;" but God evidently interposed, and "brought upon them their own iniquity," according to their horrible imprecation: "His blood be upon us and upon our children!" God "cut them off in their own iniquity." All this had, in reference to him, a most literal fulfilment.


 
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