Psalms 59:5

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You, O Lord God of armies, are the God of Israel; come now and give punishment to the nations; have no mercy on any workers of deceit. (Selah.)

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 33:20 : 20 And there he put up an altar, naming it El, the God of Israel.
  • Exod 3:15 : 15 And God went on to say to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has sent me to you: this is my name for ever, and this is my sign to all generations.
  • Exod 20:5 : 5 You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;
  • Ps 7:12-13 : 12 If a man is not turned from his evil, he will make his sword sharp; his bow is bent and ready. 13 He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire.
  • Ps 9:15 : 15 The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.
  • Ps 54:3 : 3 For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. (Selah.)
  • Ps 55:15 : 15 Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.
  • Ps 80:4 : 4 O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?
  • Ps 84:8 : 8 O Lord God of armies, let my prayer come to you: give ear, O God of Jacob. (Selah.)
  • Isa 1:10 : 10 Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.
  • Jer 18:23 : 23 But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.
  • Ezek 18:27-28 : 27 Again, when the evil-doer, turning away from the evil he has done, does what is ordered and right, he will have life for his soul. 28 Because he had fear and was turned away from all the wrong which he had done, life will certainly be his, death will not be his fate.
  • Amos 9:7 : 7 Are you not as the children of the Ethiopians to me, O children of Israel? says the Lord. Have I not taken Israel up out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Aramaeans from Kir?
  • Rom 2:28-29 : 28 The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh: 29 But he is a Jew who is a secret one, whose circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
  • Rom 9:6 : 6 But it is not as if the word of God was without effect. For they are not all Israel, who are of Israel:
  • Jas 2:13 : 13 For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 59:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    3 For see, they are watching in secret for my soul; the strong have come together against me? but not because of my sin, or my evil-doing, O Lord.

    4 For no sin of mine they go quickly and get themselves ready; be awake and come to my help, and see.

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    6 Come up, Lord, in your wrath; be lifted up against my haters; be awake, my God, give orders for the judging.

  • Ps 9:19-20
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    75%

    19 Up! O Lord; let not man overcome you: let the nations be judged before you.

    20 Put them in fear, O Lord, so that the nations may see that they are only men. (Selah.)

  • 23 Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.

  • Ps 94:1-2
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    74%

    1 O God, in whose hands is punishment, O God of punishment, let your shining face be seen.

    2 Be lifted up, O judge of the earth; let their reward come to the men of pride.

  • Ps 35:22-23
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    73%

    22 You have seen this, O Lord; be not unmoved: O Lord, be not far from me.

    23 Be awake, O Lord, be moved to take up my cause, my God and my Lord.

  • 8 O Lord God of armies, let my prayer come to you: give ear, O God of Jacob. (Selah.)

  • 8 O Lord, give not the wrongdoer his desire; give him no help in his evil designs, or he may be uplifted in pride. (Selah.)

  • 23 But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.

  • 2 O Lord, have mercy on us; for we have been waiting for your help: be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of trouble.

  • 29 Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

  • 6 Let your wrath be on the nations who have no knowledge of you, and on the kingdoms who have not made prayer to your name.

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    7 Come to me, Lord; keep me safe, O my God; for you have given all my haters blows on their face-bones; the teeth of the evil-doers have been broken by you.

  • 9 When God took his place as judge, for the salvation of the poor on the earth. (Selah.)

  • 8 You are my glory; let the instruments of music be awake; I myself will be awake with the dawn.

  • 2 How long will you go on judging falsely, having respect for the persons of evil-doers? (Selah.)

  • 10 But you, O Lord, have mercy on me, lifting me up, so that I may give them their punishment.

  • 14 O God, men of pride have come up against me, and the army of violent men would take my life; they have not put you before them.

  • 7 By evil-doing they will not get free from punishment. In wrath, O God, let the peoples be made low.

  • 13 Put an end to them in your wrath, put an end to them, so that they may not be seen again; let them see that God is ruling in Jacob and to the ends of the earth. (Selah.)

  • Joel 3:11-12
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    71%

    11 And the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem you have given for a price to the sons of the Greeks, to send them far away from their land:

    12 See, I will have them moved from the place where you have sent them, and will let what you have done come back on your head;

  • 8 Up! O God, come as judge of the earth; for all the nations are your heritage.

  • 9 Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.)

  • 15 Let your eyes be looking down from heaven, from your holy and beautiful house: where is your deep feeling, the working of your power? do not keep back the moving of your pity and your mercies:

  • 19 God will give thought to me; he who from early times is strong will send pain and trouble on them. (Selah.) Because they are unchanged, they have no fear of God.

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    4 For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wrongdoing; there is no evil with you.

  • 3 For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. (Selah.)

  • 9 Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

  • 7 To give the nations the reward of their sins, and the peoples their punishment;

  • 12 But, O Lord of armies, testing the upright and seeing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them; for I have put my cause before you.

  • 13 You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of the one on whom your holy oil was put; wounding the head of the family of the evil-doer, uncovering the base even to the neck. Selah.

  • 2 Why may the nations say, Where is now their God?

  • 49 Lord, where are your earlier mercies? where is the oath which you made to David in unchanging faith?

  • 11 Put them not to death, for so my people will keep the memory of them: let them be sent in all directions by your power; make them low, O Lord our saviour.

  • 12 Up! O Lord; let your hand be lifted: give thought to the poor.

  • 13 Up! Lord, come out against him, make him low, with your sword be my saviour from the evil-doer.

  • 2 Though he is wise, and able to send evil, and his purpose will not be changed; but he will go against the house of the evil-doers, and against those to whom they are looking for help.

  • 5 O God, be lifted up higher than the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.

  • 15 For the day of the Lord is coming quickly on all nations: as you have done it will be done to you; the reward of your acts will come on your head.

  • 15 Let the arm of the sinner and the evil-doer be broken; go on searching for his sin till there is no more.

  • 3 O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?

  • 13 Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?

  • 16 The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. (Higgaion. Selah.)

  • 43 Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;