Psalms 125:5
As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
Psalms 125:5 in other translations
| BSB | But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel. |
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| WEB | But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, the LORD will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel. |
| ASV | But as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, Jehovah will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel. |
| YLT | As to those turning to their crooked ways, Jehovah causeth them to go with workers of iniquity. Peace on Israel! |
| DARBY | But as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, Jehovah will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel! |
| BBE | But as for such as are turned out of the straight way, the Lord will take them away with the workers of evil. Let peace be on Israel. |
| Webster | As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel. |
What does Psalms 125:5 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 125:4-5
God's promises should quicken our prayers. The way of holiness is straight; there are no windings or shiftings in it. But the ways of sinners are crooked. They shift from one purpose to another, and turn hither and thither to deceive; but disappointment and misery shall befal them. Those who cleave to the ways of God, though they may have trouble in their way, their end shall be peace. The pleading of their Saviour…
Psalms 125:5 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 125:5
- Isaiah 59:8
The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
- Proverbs 2:15
Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
- Psalms 128:6
Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children, and peace upon Israel.
- Galatians 6:16
And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
- Psalms 40:4
Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
- John 14:27
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
- Psalms 101:3
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
- Matthew 7:23
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
- Philippians 2:15
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
- Hosea 2:18
And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
- Hebrews 10:38
Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
- Ezekiel 37:26
Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
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Context
- Psalms 125:4
Do good, O Lord, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.
- Psalms 125:5
As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
Psalms 125:5 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mas á los que se apartan tras sus perversidades, Jehová los llevará con los que obran iniquidad: y paz sea sobre Israel. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Mais quant à ceux qui se détournent dans leurs voies tortueuses, l’ Éternel les fera marcher avec les ouvriers d’iniquité. La paix soit sur Israël! |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Die aber auf ihre krummen Wege abbiegen, die wird Jehova dahinfahren lassen mit denen, welche Frevel tun. Wohlfahrt über Israel! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Qui seminant in lacrimis, in exsultatione metent. |