Psalm 5:10
New International Version
Declare them guilty, O God! Let their intrigues be their downfall. Banish them for their many sins, for they have rebelled against you.

New Living Translation
O God, declare them guilty. Let them be caught in their own traps. Drive them away because of their many sins, for they have rebelled against you.

English Standard Version
Make them bear their guilt, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against you.

Berean Standard Bible
Declare them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own devices. Drive them out for their many transgressions, for they have rebelled against You.

King James Bible
Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

New King James Version
Pronounce them guilty, O God! Let them fall by their own counsels; Cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions, For they have rebelled against You.

New American Standard Bible
Make them pay, God; Have them fall by their own schemes! Scatter them in the multitude of their wrongdoings, For they are rebellious against You.

NASB 1995
Hold them guilty, O God; By their own devices let them fall! In the multitude of their transgressions thrust them out, For they are rebellious against You.

NASB 1977
Hold them guilty, O God; By their own devices let them fall! In the multitude of their transgressions thrust them out, For they are rebellious against Thee.

Legacy Standard Bible
Hold them guilty, O God; By their own devices let them fall! In the abundance of their transgressions thrust them out, For they are rebellious against You.

Amplified Bible
Hold them guilty, O God; Let them fall by their own designs and councils! Cast them out because of the abundance of their transgressions, For they are mutinous and have rebelled against You.

Christian Standard Bible
Punish them, God; let them fall by their own schemes. Drive them out because of their many crimes, for they rebel against you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Punish them, God; let them fall by their own schemes. Drive them out because of their many crimes, for they rebel against You.

American Standard Version
Hold them guilty, O God; Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions; For they have rebelled against thee.

Contemporary English Version
Punish them, God, and let their own plans bring their downfall. Get rid of them! They keep committing crimes and turning against you.

English Revised Version
Hold them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own counsels: thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Condemn them, O God. Let their own schemes be their downfall. Throw them out for their many crimes because they have rebelled against you.

Good News Translation
Condemn and punish them, O God; may their own plots cause their ruin. Drive them out of your presence because of their many sins and their rebellion against you.

International Standard Version
Declare them guilty, God! Let them fall by their own schemes. Drive them away because of their many transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

Majority Standard Bible
Declare them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own devices. Drive them out for their many transgressions, for they have rebelled against You.

NET Bible
Condemn them, O God! May their own schemes be their downfall! Drive them away because of their many acts of insurrection, for they have rebelled against you.

New Heart English Bible
Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels. Cast them out because of the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

World English Bible
Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels. Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Declare them guilty, O God, "" Let them fall from their own counsels, "" In the abundance of their transgressions "" Drive them away, "" Because they have been rebellious against You.

Young's Literal Translation
Declare them guilty, O God, Let them fall from their own counsels, In the abundance of their transgressions Drive them away, Because they have rebelled against Thee.

Smith's Literal Translation
Punish them, O God: they shall fall by their counsels; in the multitude of their transgressions thrust them down, for they rebelled against thee.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Their throat is an open sepulchre: they dealt deceitfully with their tongues: judge them, O God. Let them fall from their devices: according to the multitude of their wickedness cast them out: for they have provoked thee, O Lord.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Their throat is an open sepulcher. They have acted deceitfully with their tongues. Judge them, O God. Let them fall by their own intentions: according to the multitude of their impiety, expel them. For they have provoked you, O Lord.

New American Bible
Declare them guilty, God; make them fall by their own devices. Drive them out for their many sins; for they have rebelled against you.

New Revised Standard Version
Make them bear their guilt, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; because of their many transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against you.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
Condemn thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their wickedness, for they have provoked thee.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
God will condemn them; they will fall from their counsels, and in the multitude of their evils cast them out, because they have provoked you.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Hold them guilty, O God, Let them fall by their own counsels; Cast them down in the multitude of their transgressions; For they have rebelled against Thee.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Judge them, O God; let them fail of their counsels: cast them out according to the abundance of their ungodliness; for they have provoked thee, O Lord.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Give Ear to My Words
9For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit. 10Declare them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own devices. Drive them out for their many transgressions, for they have rebelled against You. 11But let all who take refuge in You rejoice; let them ever shout for joy. May You shelter them, that those who love Your name may rejoice in You.…

Cross References
Romans 3:13-14
“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.” / “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

Jeremiah 18:23
But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.

Matthew 23:27-28
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity. / In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Psalm 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.

Romans 1:29-31
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, / slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. / They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.

Psalm 7:14-16
Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood. / He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making. / His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.

1 Thessalonians 2:15-16
who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men, / hindering us from telling the Gentiles how they may be saved. As a result, they continue to heap up their sins to full capacity; the utmost wrath has come upon them.

Psalm 55:9-11
O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city. / Day and night they encircle the walls, while malice and trouble lie within. / Destruction is within; oppression and deceit never leave the streets.

2 Peter 2:12-13
These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed. / The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you.

Psalm 28:3
Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while malice is in their hearts.

Revelation 22:15
But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Psalm 36:3
The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.

Matthew 12:34-37
You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. / The good man brings good things out of his good store of treasure, and the evil man brings evil things out of his evil store of treasure. / But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. ...

Psalm 140:3
They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah

Luke 11:39-44
Then the Lord said, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. / You fools! Did not the One who made the outside make the inside as well? / But give as alms the things that are within you, and behold, everything will be clean for you. ...


Treasury of Scripture

Destroy you them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against you.

Destroy.

Romans 3:19,20
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God…

let

Psalm 7:9-15
Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins…

Psalm 9:15,16
The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken…

Psalm 10:15
Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

by.

Lamentations 1:5
Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.

Hosea 9:7
The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

they

Isaiah 1:2,20
Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me…

Daniel 9:5,9
We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: …

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Psalm 5
1. David prays, and professes his study in prayer
4. God favors not the wicked
7. David, professing his faith, prays to God to guide him
10. to destroy his enemies
11. and to preserve the godly














Declare them guilty
The phrase "Declare them guilty" in Psalm 5:10 is a plea for divine justice. The Hebrew root word here is "אַשֵּׁם" (asham), which means to be guilty or to bear guilt. In the context of ancient Israel, guilt was not just a legal status but a moral and spiritual condition. The psalmist is asking God to pronounce a verdict on the wicked, reflecting a deep trust in God's righteous judgment. This plea aligns with the broader biblical theme that God is the ultimate judge who discerns the hearts and actions of all people.

O God
The invocation "O God" is a direct appeal to the divine, emphasizing the personal relationship between the psalmist and the Creator. The Hebrew word used here is "אֱלֹהִים" (Elohim), a plural form that denotes majesty and power. This name for God underscores His sovereignty and authority over all creation. In the historical context, calling upon God in this manner reflects a deep-seated belief in His ability to intervene in human affairs and execute justice.

Let them fall by their own devices
The phrase "Let them fall by their own devices" suggests a poetic justice where the wicked are ensnared by their own schemes. The Hebrew word for "devices" is "מוֹעֵצוֹת" (moetzot), which can also mean plans or counsels. This reflects a biblical principle found throughout Scripture, where evil intentions often backfire on the perpetrator. The psalmist's request is not for arbitrary punishment but for a natural consequence of the wicked's actions, highlighting the moral order established by God.

Scatter them
"Scatter them" is a call for the dispersion and defeat of the wicked. The Hebrew root "פּוּץ" (puts) means to scatter or disperse. This imagery is often used in the Old Testament to describe the breaking up of enemy forces or the dispersion of those who oppose God's will. Historically, scattering was a form of divine judgment, as seen in the Tower of Babel narrative. The psalmist's use of this term underscores a desire for God to disrupt the unity and strength of those who do evil.

in the multitude of their transgressions
The phrase "in the multitude of their transgressions" highlights the abundance and severity of the sins committed by the wicked. The Hebrew word "רַב" (rav) means multitude or abundance, and "פֶּשַׁע" (pesha) refers to transgressions or rebellions. This indicates a willful and repeated defiance against God's laws. The psalmist is emphasizing that the sheer volume of their sins warrants divine intervention and judgment.

for they have rebelled against You
The concluding phrase "for they have rebelled against You" identifies the root cause of the wicked's guilt: rebellion against God. The Hebrew word "מָרָה" (marah) means to rebel or be contentious. This rebellion is not just against human authority but against God Himself, which is the ultimate act of defiance. In the biblical narrative, rebellion against God leads to separation from His presence and blessings. The psalmist's acknowledgment of this rebellion serves as a reminder of the seriousness of turning away from God's commandments and the inevitable consequences that follow.

(10) Destroy.--Literally, make or count guilty.

Transgressions.--Literally, revolts, thus being in close synonymous parallelism with the next clause. Or else, as in margin and in ancient versions, LXX., Vulg., and Syriac, "Let them fall from their counsels:" i.e., "let their plots fail."

On the imprecations in the Psalms see General Introduction, 6.

Verse 10. - Destroy thou them, O God; rather, condemn them, or declare them guilty (Kay); κρῖνον αὐτούς (LXX.). Let them fall by their own counsels. No condemnation naturally follows punishment. David assumes that God will make his enemies fall; he prays that they may fall from the effect of their own counsels. The fate of Ahithophel (2 Samuel 17:23) perhaps fulfilled this imprecation. Cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; Thrust them out (Revised Version); "Thrust them down" (Kay). Punish them at once, in the midst of their many transgressions. For they have rebelled against thee. They have sinned, not against me only, but equally - nay, far more - against thee.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Declare them guilty,
הַֽאֲשִׁימֵ֨ם ׀ (ha·’ă·šî·mêm)
Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's 816: To be guilty, to be punished, perish

O God;
אֱ‍ֽלֹהִ֗ים (’ĕlō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

let them fall
יִפְּלוּ֮ (yip·pə·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 5307: To fall, lie

by their own devices.
מִֽמֹּעֲצ֪וֹתֵ֫יהֶ֥ם (mim·mō·‘ă·ṣō·w·ṯê·hem)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 4156: Counsel, plan, principle, device

Drive them out
הַדִּיחֵ֑מוֹ (had·dî·ḥê·mōw)
Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5080: To impel, thrust, banish

for their many
בְּרֹ֣ב (bə·rōḇ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7230: Multitude, abundance, greatness

transgressions,
פִּ֭שְׁעֵיהֶם (piš·‘ê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 6588: Transgression

for
כִּי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

they have rebelled against You.
מָ֥רוּ (mā·rū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 4784: To be contentious or rebellious


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