Isaiah 59:18 — Compare Translations

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According as their deeds deserve, so will He repay wrath to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies; on the foreign islands and coastlands He will make compensation.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

According as their deeds deserve, so will He repay wrath to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies; on the foreign islands and coastlands He will make compensation.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

So He will repay according to their deeds: fury to His enemies, retribution to His foes, and recompense to the islands.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

So he will repay according to their deeds: fury to his enemies, retribution to his foes, and he will repay the coasts and islands.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

According to deeds, so will he repay: fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.

English EASY 2024

He will punish his enemies for the bad things that they have done. He will be very angry with them. He will punish all his enemies, even those who live in lands far away.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

He will give his enemies the punishment they deserve. They will feel his anger. He will punish all his enemies. People along the coast will get the punishment they deserve.

According to their deeds, so will he repay, wrath to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies; to the coastlands he will render repayment.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

He will punish his enemies according to what they have done, even those who live in distant lands.

English God's Word - GW 1995

He will pay them back according to their deeds. He will pay back his opponents with wrath and punish his enemies. He will pay back the people who live on the coastlands.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

Thus He will repay according to [their] deeds: fury to His enemies, retribution to His foes, and He will repay the coastlands.

English KJV 1611

According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.

English LSB

According to what they deserve, so He will pay in full, Wrath to His adversaries, what is deserved to His enemies; To the coastlands He will pay what they deserve.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay: fury to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies; to the islands He will make recompense.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

According to their deeds, so He will repay, Wrath to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies; To the coastlands He will make recompense.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

He repays his enemies their deserts, and requites his foes with wrath.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

He repays them for what they have done, dispensing angry judgment to his adversaries and punishing his enemies. He repays the coastlands.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

He will pay his enemies back for what they have done. He'll pour his anger out on them. He'll punish those who attack him. He'll give the people in the islands what they have coming to them.

English NIV

According to what they have done, so will he repay wrath to his enemies and retribution to his foes; he will repay the islands their due.

English NKJ 1982

According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay, Fury to His adversaries, Recompense to His enemies; The coastlands He will fully repay.

English NLT

He will repay his enemies for their evil deeds. His fury will fall on his foes in distant lands.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

According to their deeds, so will he repay; wrath to his adversaries, requital to his enemies; to the coastlands he will render requital.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

He will repay wrath to his enemies and retribution to his foes, according to what they have done. Reckoning is coming to the islands for what is due them.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

According to their deeds, so will he repay, wrath to his adversaries, requital to his enemies; to the coastlands he will render requital.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

He will repay his enemies for their evil deeds—fury for his foes in distant lands.

English Tyndale 1537

(like as when a man goeth forth wrothfully to recompense his enemies, and to be avenged of his adversaries.) Namely, that he might recompense and reward the Islands,