There the evildoers lie prostrate, they are thrust down, unable to rise.
Psalm 56:7 - Revised Standard Version so recompense them for their crime; in wrath cast down the peoples, O God! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Shall they escape by iniquity? In thine anger cast down the people, O God. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They think to escape with iniquity, and shall they? In Your indignation bring down the peoples, O God. American Standard Version (1901) Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God. Common English Bible Don’t rescue them for any reason! In wrath bring down the people, God! Catholic Public Domain Version They prepared a snare for my feet, and they bowed down my soul. They dug a pit before my face, yet they have fallen into it. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They prepared a snare for my feet; and they bowed down my soul. They dug a pit before my face, and they are fallen into it. |
There the evildoers lie prostrate, they are thrust down, unable to rise.
men who trust in their wealth and boast of the abundance of their riches?
Let death come upon them; let them go down to Sheol alive; let them go away in terror into their graves.
But thou, O God, wilt cast them down into the lowest pit; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in thee.
Destroy their plans, O Lord, confuse their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.
for no fault of mine, they run and make ready. Rouse thyself, come to my help, and see!
No man has power to retain the spirit, or authority over the day of death; there is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.
Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement; when the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter”;
Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the peoples that call not on thy name; for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations?
Thou who art of purer eyes than to behold evil and canst not look on wrong, why dost thou look on faithless men, and art silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?