Isaiah 3:11 Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them! They will be paid back for what their hands have done.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them! They will be paid back for what their hands have done.

English Standard Version
Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.

New American Standard Bible
Woe to the wicked! It will go badly with him, For what he deserves will be done to him.

King James Bible
Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Woe to the wicked--it will go badly for them, for what they have done will be done to them.

International Standard Version
"How terrible it will be for the wicked! Disaster is headed their way, because what they did with their hand will be repaid to them.

American Standard Version
Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him ; for what his hands have done shall be done unto him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Darby Bible Translation
Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him, because the desert of his hands shall be rendered unto him.

Young's Literal Translation
Woe to the wicked -- evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to him.

Cross References

Genesis 18:25
That be far from you to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from you: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Deuteronomy 28:15
But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day; that all these curses shall come on you, and overtake you:

2 Chronicles 6:23
Then hear you from heaven, and do, and judge your servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way on his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

Job 10:15
If I be wicked, woe to me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see you my affliction;

Proverbs 1:31
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Proverbs 12:14
A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompense of a man's hands shall be rendered to him.

Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he fears not before God.

Isaiah 13:11
And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

Isaiah 57:20
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

Isaiah 65:6
Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

3:10-15 The rule was certain; however there might be national prosperity or trouble, it would be well with the righteous and ill with the wicked. Blessed be God, there is abundant encouragement to the righteous to trust in him, and for sinners to repent and return to him. It was time for the Lord to show his might. He will call men to a strict account for all the wealth and power intrusted to and abused by them. If it is sinful to disregard the necessities of the poor, how odious and wicked a part do they act, who bring men into poverty, and then oppress them!

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

11. ill—antithesis to "well" (Isa 3:10); emphatic ellipsis of the words italicized. "Ill!"

hands—his conduct; "hands" being the instrument of acts (Ec 8:12, 13).