Psalms 91:8: “Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.” Leave it to the KJV to come up with a word which in the twenty first century sounds like an absurdity. The wicked are going to get a reward. Today the word reward is reference to something good
Psalms 91:8: “Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.” Leave it to the KJV to come up with a word which in the twenty first century sounds like an absurdity. The wicked are going to get a reward. Today the word reward is reference to
Psalms 11:5: “The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.” I really hate when our Modern Translations use the word hate in association with God. I mean if He can hate even a violent person then what is it going to take for Him
Proverbs 13:22: “A good [man] leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner [is] laid up for the just.” Leviticus 14:34: “When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house
Jeremiah 17:9, “The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?” Boy, Jeremiah loved that word deceitful. Here it is again. Only unlike Jeremiah 20:7 where he uses the word patah which is rendered as deceived in many translations but has more of the idea of being seduced or
II Chronicles 7:14: “If my people who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked way, then will I hear from the heavens and will forgive their sin, and heal their land.” II Chronicles 12:7: “And when the Lord saw that they humbled
WORD STUDY: WICKED Isaiah 5:23: “Which justify the wicked for the reward and take the righteousness from the righteous from him.” Wicked – Hebrew: rasha – A term used for merchants who use false balances The NIV probably has the clearest rendering for Isaiah 5:23: “Who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice
