Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
BSB
ASV
Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him; for what his hands have done shall be done unto him.
KJV
Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
Wo unto the wicked - To all the wicked - but here having particular reference to the Jews whom Isaiah was addressing. It shall be ill with him - The word “ill” is the only word here in the original. It is an emphatic mode of speaking - expressing deep abhorrence and suddenness of denunciation. ‘Woe to the impious! Ill!’ For the reward of his hands - Of his conduct. The hands are the instruments by which we accomplish anything, and hence, they are put for the whole man.
1834–1892
THERE are two classes mentioned here, the righteous and the wicked. And into these two orders the Book of God is accustomed to divide the whole population of the globe. It speaks but little of upper and lower classes. It says but little concerning the various ranks into which civil and political institutions have divided the race of man—but from its first page to its last it is taken up with this grand division—the righteous and the wicked. Very early in human history we find the "Seed of the woman," and the "seed of the serpent."
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Isaiah 48:22“There is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked.”
leads to
“There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.
and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.
Through
James 2:13For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
leads to
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive yours.
Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too shall cry out and receive no answer.
Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,