Psalms 28:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings: Give them after the operation of their hands; Render to them their desert.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

תֶּן־לָהֶ֣ם כְּפָעֳלָם֮ וּכְרֹ֢עַ מַֽעַלְלֵ֫יהֶ֥ם כְּמַעֲשֵׂ֣ה יְ֭דֵיהֶם תֵּ֣ן לָהֶ֑ם הָשֵׁ֖ב גְּמוּלָ֣ם לָהֶֽם׃

Transliteration

Ten-to them according to pāʿŏlām and according to rōaʿ maʿalĕlêhem, according to maʿăśēh yĕdêhem tēn to them; hāšēb gĕmûlām to them.

Grammar Details

• *Ten*: qal imperative masculine singular - give
• *pāʿŏlām*: noun masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their work/deed
• *rōaʿ*: noun masculine singular construct - evil/wickedness of
• *maʿalĕlêhem*: noun masculine plural with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their deeds/practices
• *maʿăśēh*: noun masculine singular construct - work/deed of
• *yĕdêhem*: noun feminine dual with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their hands
• *tēn*: qal imperative masculine singular - give
• *hāšēb*: hiphil imperative masculine singular - cause to return/bring back
• *gĕmûlām*: noun masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their recompense/dealings

Word Meanings

• *pāʿŏlām*: their work/their deed/their action
• *rōaʿ*: evil/wickedness/malice
• *maʿalĕlêhem*: their deeds/their practices/their endeavors
• *gĕmûlām*: their recompense/their reward/what they deserve

Referenced Verses

• 2 Tim 4:14 : 14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord will render to him according to his works:
• Rev 18:6 : 6 Render unto her even as she rendered, {G5213} and double [unto her] the double according to her works: in the cup which she mingled, mingle unto her double.
• Ps 62:12 : 12 Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth lovingkindness; For thou renderest to every man according to his work.
• Ps 69:22-24 : 22 Let their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, [let it become] a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; And make their loins continually to shake. 24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, And let the fierceness of thine anger overtake them.
• Ps 103:3-4 : 3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth all thy diseases; 4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
• Ps 103:10 : 10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins, Nor rewarded us after our iniquities.
• Ps 109:17-21 : 17 Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him. 18 He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, And it came into his inward parts like water, And like oil into his bones. 19 Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he covereth himself, And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually. 20 This is the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah, And of them that speak evil against my soul. 21 But deal thou with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for thy name's sake: Because thy lovingkindness is good, deliver thou me;
• Jer 18:21-23 : 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men smitten of the sword in battle. 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them; for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet. 23 Yet, Jehovah, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight; but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thou with them in the time of thine anger.
• Ezek 38:10 : 10 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: It shall come to pass in that day, that things shall come into thy mind, and thou shalt devise an evil device:
• Rom 2:6-8 : 6 who will render to every man according to his works: 7 to them that by patience in {G18} well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life: 8 but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, [shall be] wrath and indignation,
• Rom 11:22 : 22 Behold then the goodness and severity of God: toward them that fell, severity; but toward thee, God's goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
• Rev 22:12 : 12 {G2532} Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to render to each man according as his work is.
• Ezra 9:13 : 13 And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, seeing that you our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,
• Ps 2:1-5 : 1 Why do the nations rage, And the peoples meditate a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against Jehovah, and against his anointed, [saying], 3 Let us break their bonds asunder, And cast away their cords from us. 4 He that sitteth in the heavens will laugh: The Lord will have them in derision. 5 Then will he speak unto them in his wrath, And vex them in his sore displeasure:
• Ps 5:10 : 10 Hold them guilty, O God; Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions; For they have rebelled against thee.
• Ps 21:10 : 10 Their fruit wilt thou destroy from the earth, And their seed from among the children of men.
• Ps 59:12-13 : 12 [ For] the sin of their mouth, [and] the words of their lips, Let them even be taken in their pride, And for cursing and lying which they speak. 13 Consume them in wrath, consume them, so that they shall be no more: And let them know that God ruleth in Jacob, Unto the ends of the earth. {H5542}