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Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.
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A Cry for Justice, Not Revenge
Commentators universally agree that this verse is not an expression of personal hatred or a desire for petty revenge. Instead, it is a solemn appeal for God's perfect justice to be enacted. The psalmist, representing the faithful, asks God to vindicate righteousness and deal with persistent, unrepentant evil according to its deserts, thereby upholding His own holy character.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Give them according to their deeds - Deal righteously with them. Recompense them as they deserve.
And according to the wickedne…
19th Century
Anglican
Give them according to their deeds. —The justice of the lex talionis was deeply impressed on the mind of Israel,…
Baptist
And a just mind feels that it should be so. God is a judge, and he will punish sin, and gracious people do not wish that it should be otherwise. Ev…
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16th Century
Protestant
Give them according to their works. Having thus requested God to consider his innocence, the Psalmist thunders forth a curse against his e…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Give them according to their deeds According to the demerit of them, which is death, even death eternal;
David is very earnest in prayer. Observe his faith in prayer; God is my rock, on whom I build my hope. Believers should not rest until the…
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13th Century
Catholic
1. In the previous psalm, the psalmist showed the trust he had in God; now he adds a psalm of prayer so that he might not fail in that trust…
