Lexicon :: Strong's H6184 - ʿārîṣ

or “Deliver me from the enemy’s hand”

or “Redeem me from the hand of the ruthless”?

A wicked person writhes in pain all his days,

throughout the number of years reserved for the ruthless.

This is a wicked man’s lot from God,

the inheritance the ruthless receive from the Almighty.

I have seen a wicked, violent person

well-rooted,[fn] like a flourishing native tree.

For strangers rise up against me,

and violent men intend to kill me.

They do not let God guide them.[fn]Selah

God, arrogant people have attacked me;

a gang of ruthless men intends to kill me.

They do not let you guide them.[fn]

A gracious woman gains honor,

but violent[fn] people gain only riches.

I will punish the world for its evil,

and wicked people for their iniquities.

I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant

and humiliate the insolence of tyrants.

Therefore, a strong people will honor you.

The cities of violent nations will fear you.

Your many foes[fn] will be like fine dust,

and many of the ruthless, like blowing chaff.

Then suddenly, in an instant,

For the ruthless one will vanish,

the scorner will disappear,

and all those who lie in wait with evil intent

will be killed —

For this is what the LORD says:

“Even the captives of a mighty man will be taken,

and the prey of a tyrant will be delivered;

I will contend with the one who contends with you,

and I will save your children.

I will rescue you from the power of evil people

and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.

But the LORD is with me like a violent warrior.

Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and not prevail.

Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly shamed,

an everlasting humiliation that will never be forgotten.

“I am about to bring strangers against you,

ruthless men from the nations.

They will draw their swords

against your magnificent wisdom

and will pierce your splendor.

“He along with his people,

ruthless men from the nations,

will be brought in to destroy the land.

They will draw their swords against Egypt

and fill the land with the slain.

“Foreigners, ruthless men from the nations, cut it down and left it lying. Its limbs fell on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. All the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.

“I will make your hordes fall

by the swords of warriors,

all of them ruthless men from the nations.

They will ravage Egypt’s pride,

and all its hordes will be destroyed.