Far be it from you to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”
Isaiah 3:11 - New Revised Standard Version Woe to the guilty! How unfortunate they are, for what their hands have done shall be done to them. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with them, for what their hands have done shall be done to them. American Standard Version (1901) Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him; for what his hands have done shall be done unto him. Common English Bible Doom to the wicked; they are evil. What they have done will be done to them. Catholic Public Domain Version Woe to the impious man immersed in evil! For retribution will be given to him from his own hands. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him. |
Far be it from you to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”
Today I am powerless, even though anointed king; these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too violent for me. The Lord pay back the one who does wickedly in accordance with his wickedness!”
I will bring disaster on you; I will consume you, and will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel;
may you hear from heaven, and act, and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing their conduct on their own head, and vindicating those who are in the right by rewarding them in accordance with their righteousness.
If I am wicked, woe to me! If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look upon my affliction.
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.
and steadfast love belongs to you, O Lord. For you repay to all according to their work.
therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way and be sated with their own devices.
If the righteous are repaid on earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!
From the fruit of the mouth one is filled with good things, and manual labor has its reward.
Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on the one who starts it rolling.
but it will not be well with the wicked, neither will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not stand in fear before God.
I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant, and lay low the insolence of tyrants.
No more shall there be in it an infant that lives but a few days, or an old person who does not live out a lifetime; for one who dies at a hundred years will be considered a youth, and one who falls short of a hundred will be considered accursed.
See, it is written before me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will indeed repay into their laps
their iniquities and their ancestors' iniquities together, says the Lord; because they offered incense on the mountains and reviled me on the hills, I will measure into their laps full payment for their actions.
I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says the Lord; I will kindle a fire in its forest, and it shall devour all that is around it.
But all shall die for their own sins; the teeth of everyone who eats sour grapes shall be set on edge.
Yes, thus says the Lord God: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath, breaking the covenant;
The person who sins shall die. A child shall not suffer for the iniquity of a parent, nor a parent suffer for the iniquity of a child; the righteousness of the righteous shall be his own, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be his own.
He spread it before me; it had writing on the front and on the back, and written on it were words of lamentation and mourning and woe.
I the Lord have spoken; the time is coming, I will act. I will not refrain, I will not spare, I will not relent. According to your ways and your doings I will judge you, says the Lord God.
If I say to the wicked, “O wicked ones, you shall surely die,” and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from their ways, the wicked shall die in their iniquity, but their blood I will require at your hand.
Then they will cry to the Lord, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time, because they have acted wickedly.
But the earth will be desolate because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their doings.
But if you do not do this, you have sinned against the Lord; and be sure your sin will find you out.
For all of us must appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each may receive recompense for what has been done in the body, whether good or evil.
For judgment will be without mercy to anyone who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.
and God also made all the wickedness of the people of Shechem fall back on their heads, and on them came the curse of Jotham son of Jerubbaal.