He replied, ‘I have not ruined Israel, but you and your father’s family have, because you have abandoned the Lord’s commands and followed the Baals.
Proverbs 5:22 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised A wicked man’s iniquities will trap him; he will become tangled in the ropes of his own sin. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition His own iniquities shall ensnare the wicked man, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin. American Standard Version (1901) His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin. Common English Bible The wicked will be caught by their own evil acts, grabbed by the ropes of their own sin. Catholic Public Domain Version His own iniquities take hold of the impious, and he is bound by the cords of his own sins. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins. |
He replied, ‘I have not ruined Israel, but you and your father’s family have, because you have abandoned the Lord’s commands and followed the Baals.
But when the matter was brought before the king, he commanded by letter that the evil plan Haman had devised against the Jews return on his own head and that he should be hanged with his sons on the gallows.
but they set an ambush to kill themselves; they attack their own lives.
The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the treacherous destroys them.
The righteousness of the blameless clears his path, but the wicked person will fall because of his wickedness.
The righteousness of the upright rescues them, but the treacherous are trapped by their own desires.
A person will be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth, and the work of a person’s hands will reward him.
The wicked one is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous one has a refuge in his death.
A fool’s mouth is his devastation, and his lips are a trap for his life.
If you say, ‘But we didn’t know about this,’ won’t he who weighs hearts consider it? Won’t he who protects your life know? Won’t he repay a person according to his work?
The one who digs a pit will fall into it, and whoever rolls a stone – it will come back on him.
And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a trap: her heart a net and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her.
Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Recognise how evil and bitter it is for you to abandon the Lord your God and to have no fear of me. This is the declaration of the Lord God of Armies.
My transgressions have been formed into a yoke, ,, fastened together by his hand; they have been placed on my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has handed me over to those I cannot withstand.
For the day of the Lord is near, against all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; what you deserve will return on your own head.
But if you don’t do this, you will certainly sin against the Lord; be sure your sin will catch up with you.
Marriage is to be honoured by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Then the men of Israel returned, and the men of Benjamin were terrified when they realised that disaster had struck them.
God also brought back to the men of Shechem all their evil. So the curse of Jotham son of Jerubbaal came upon them.