Psalm 94:23
 Psalm 94:23 
New International Version (©2011)
He will repay them for their sins and destroy them for their wickedness; the LORD our God will destroy them.

New Living Translation (©2007)
God will turn the sins of evil people back on them. He will destroy them for their sins. The LORD our God will destroy them.

English Standard Version (©2001)
He will bring back on them their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the LORD our God will wipe them out.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He has brought back their wickedness upon them And will destroy them in their evil; The LORD our God will destroy them.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He will pay them back for their sins and destroy them for their evil. The LORD our God will destroy them.

International Standard Version (©2012)
He will repay them for their sin; he will annihilate them because of their evil. The LORD our God will annihilate them.

NET Bible (©2006)
He will pay them back for their sin. He will destroy them because of their evil; the LORD our God will destroy them.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
He returns their evil against them and their companions in their evils, he silences such; Lord Jehovah our God silences them!

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He has turned their own wickedness against them. He will destroy them because of their sins. The LORD our God will destroy them.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.

American King James Version
And he shall bring on them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yes, the LORD our God shall cut them off.

American Standard Version
And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity, And will cut them off in their own wickedness; Jehovah our God will cut them off.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he will render them their iniquity: and in their malice he will destroy them: the Lord our God will destroy them.

Darby Bible Translation
And he will bring upon them their iniquity, and will cut them off in their own evil: Jehovah our God will cut them off.

English Revised Version
And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own evil; the LORD our God shall cut them off.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he will bring upon them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness; yes, the LORD our God will cut them off.

World English Bible
He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.

Young's Literal Translation
And turneth back on them their iniquity, And in their wickedness cutteth them off; Jehovah our God doth cut them off!

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

94:12-23 That man is blessed, who, under the chastening of the Lord, is taught his will and his truths, from his holy word, and by the Holy Spirit. He should see mercy through his sufferings. There is a rest remaining for the people of God after the days of their adversity, which shall not last always. He that sends the trouble, will send the rest. The psalmist found succour and relief only in the Lord, when all earthly friends failed. We are beholden, not only to God's power, but to his pity, for spiritual supports; and if we have been kept from falling into sin, or shrinking from our duty, we should give him the glory, and encourage our brethren. The psalmist had many troubled thoughts concerning the case he was in, concerning the course he should take, and what was likely to be the end of it. The indulgence of such contrivances and fears, adds to care and distrust, and renders our views more gloomy and confused. Good men sometimes have perplexed and distressed thoughts concerning God. But let them look to the great and precious promises of the gospel. The world's comforts give little delight to the soul, when hurried with melancholy thoughts; but God's comforts bring that peace and pleasure which the smiles of the world cannot give, and which the frowns of the world cannot take away. God is his people's Refuge, to whom they may flee, in whom they are safe, and may be secure. And he will reckon with the wicked. A man cannot be more miserable than his own wickedness will make him, if the Lord visit it upon him.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 23. - And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity. Most manifestly when he makes them fall into their own snare (Psalm 7:15; Psalm 35:8; Psalm 57:6; Psalm 141:9, 10), but really also whenever he punishes them for their sins. And shall cut them off; or, "destroy," "exterminate" them. In their own wickedness; or, "by their wickedness." The wicked man is often "hoist with his own petard." Yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off. The repetition, like that in ver. 1, is emphatic, and solemnly confirms the entire section (vers. 20-23).


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity,.... The just punishment of it; or cause the mischief they designed to others to fall upon themselves; or make retaliation to them; that whereas they had drank the blood of the saints and martyrs of Jesus, blood should be given them to drink; or their own blood should be shed, Revelation 16:6, the Jews (i) say, that the Levites stood on their desks, and recited this passage, both at the precise time of the destruction of the first temple by Nebuchadnezzar, and of the second by the Romans:

and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; in the midst of it, while slaying the witnesses, and triumphing over them, Revelation 18:7, yea,

the Lord our God shall cut them off; the God of Jacob, who, they said, did not see nor regard what they did, Psalm 94:7, and so this latter part of the psalm fulfils the former, and proves that God is a God of vengeance, to whom it belongs; and he will exercise it in due time.

(i) Seder Olam Rabba, c. 30. p. 92.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

23. bring … iniquity—(Compare Ps 5:10; 7:16).

in their … wickedness—while they are engaged in evil doing.


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The Lord will Not Forget His People
21They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood. 22But the LORD is my defense; and my God is the rock of my refuge. 23And he shall bring on them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yes, the LORD our God shall cut them off.

Genesis 19:15 With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished."
Judges 9:56 Thus God repaid the wickedness that Abimelek had done to his father by murdering his seventy brothers.
Esther 7:10 So they impaled Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai. Then the king's fury subsided.
Psalm 7:9 Bring to an end the violence of the wicked and make the righteous secure-- you, the righteous God who probes minds and hearts.
Psalm 7:16 The trouble they cause recoils on them; their violence comes down on their own heads.
Psalm 18:40 You made my enemies turn their backs in flight, and I destroyed my foes.
Psalm 34:21 Evil will slay the wicked; the foes of the righteous will be condemned.
Psalm 54:5 Let evil recoil on those who slander me; in your faithfulness destroy them.
Psalm 109:20 May this be the LORD's payment to my accusers, to those who speak evil of me.
Psalm 140:9 Those who surround me proudly rear their heads; may the mischief of their lips engulf them.
Psalm 140:11 May slanderers not be established in the land; may disaster hunt down the violent.