Isaiah 29:20
Good News Translation
It will be the end of those who oppress others and show contempt for God. Every sinner will be destroyed.

New Revised Standard Version
For the tyrant shall be no more, and the scoffer shall cease to be; all those alert to do evil shall be cut off—

Contemporary English Version
All who are cruel and arrogant will be gone forever. Those who live by crime will disappear,

New American Bible
For the tyrant shall be no more, the scoffer shall cease to be; All who are ready for evil shall be cut off,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For he that did prevail hath failed, the scorner is consumed, and they are all cut off that watched for iniquity:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For he that did prevail hath failed, the scorner is consumed, and they are all cut off that watched for iniquity:

the terrible

Isaiah 29:5 And the multitude of them that fan thee, shall be like small dust: and as ashes passing away, the multitude of them that have prevailed against thee.

Isaiah 13:3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, and have called my strong ones in my wrath, them that rejoice in my glory.

Isaiah 25:4,5 Because thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress: a refuge from the whirlwind, a shadow from the heat. For the blast of the mighty is like a whirlwind beating against a wall. . . .

Isaiah 49:25 For thus saith the Lord: Yea verily, even the captivity shall be taken away from the strong: and that which was taken by the mighty, shall be delivered. But I will judge those that have judged thee, and thy children I will save.

Isaiah 51:13 And thou hast forgotten the Lord thy maker, who stretched out the heavens, and founded the earth: and thou hast been afraid continually all the day at the presence of his fury who afflicted thee, and had prepared himself to destroy thee: where is now the fury of the oppressor?

Daniel 7:7,19-25 After this I beheld in the vision of the night, and lo, a fourth beast, terrible and wonderful, and exceeding strong, it had great iron teeth, eating and breaking in pieces, and treading down the rest with his feet: and it was unlike to the other beasts which I had seen before it, and had ten horns. . . .

Habakkuk 1:6,7 For behold, I will raise up the Chaldeans, a bitter and swift nation, marching upon the breadth of the earth, to possess the dwelling places that are not their own. . . .

the scorner

Isaiah 28:14-22 Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, who rule over my people that is in Jerusalem. . . .

Luke 16:14 Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.

Luke 23:11,35 And Herod with his army set him at nought and mocked him, putting on him a white garment: and sent him back to Pilate. . . .

and all

Micah 2:1 Make thee bald, and be polled for thy delicate children: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle: for they are carried into captivity from thee.

Mark 2:6,7 And there were some of the scribes sitting there and thinking in their hearts: . . .

Mark 3:2-6 And they watched him whether he would heal on the sabbath days, that they might accuse him. . . .

Luke 6:7 And the scribes and Pharisees watched if he would heal on the sabbath: that they might find an accusation against him.

Luke 13:14-17 And the ruler of the synagogue being angry that Jesus had healed on the sabbath answering, said to the multitude: Six days there are wherein you ought to work. In them therefore come and be healed: and not on the sabbath day. . . .

Luke 20:20-23 And being upon the watch, they sent spies, who should feign themselves just, that they might take hold of him in his words, that they might deliver him up to the authority and power of the governor. . . .

Revelation 12:10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying: Now is come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ: because the accuser of our brethren is cast forth, who accused them before our God day and night.

Context
Sanctification for the Godly
19And the meek shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. 20For he that did prevail hath failed, the scorner is consumed, and they are all cut off that watched for iniquity:21That made men sin by word, and supplanted him that reproved them in the gate, and declined in vain from the just.…
Cross References
Psalm 10:18
To judge for the fatherless and for the humble, that man may no more presume to magnify himself upon earth.

Proverbs 21:24
The proud and the arrogant is called ignorant, who in anger worketh pride.

Isaiah 13:11
And I will visit the evils of the world, and against the wicked for their iniquity: and I will make the pride of infidels to cease, and will bring down the arrogancy of the mighty.

Isaiah 25:4
Because thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress: a refuge from the whirlwind, a shadow from the heat. For the blast of the mighty is like a whirlwind beating against a wall.

Isaiah 28:14
Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, who rule over my people that is in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 29:5
And the multitude of them that fan thee, shall be like small dust: and as ashes passing away, the multitude of them that have prevailed against thee.

Isaiah 59:4
There is none that calleth upon justice, neither is there any one that judgeth truly: but they trust in a mere nothing, and speak vanities: they have conceived labour, and brought forth iniquity.

Micah 2:1
Make thee bald, and be polled for thy delicate children: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle: for they are carried into captivity from thee.

Isaiah 29:19
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