Isaiah 3:11
Good News Translation
But evil people are doomed; what they have done to others will now be done to them.

New Revised Standard Version
Woe to the guilty! How unfortunate they are, for what their hands have done shall be done to them.

Contemporary English Version
Tell those who disobey, "You're in big trouble--what you did to others will come back to you."

New American Bible
Woe to the wicked! It will go ill with them, with the work of their hands they will be repaid.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

woe

Isaiah 48:22 There is no peace to the wicked, saith the Lord.

Isaiah 57:20,21 But the wicked are like the raging sea, which cannot rest, and the waves thereof cast up dirt and mire. . . .

Isaiah 65:13-15,20 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold my servants shall eat, and you shall be hungry: behold my servants shall drink, and you shall be thirsty. . . .

Psalm 1:3-5 And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper. . . .

Psalm 11:5,6 The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord's throne is in heaven. His eyes look on the poor man: his eyelids examine the sons of men. . . .

Ecclesiastes 8:13 But let it not be well with the wicked, neither let his days be prolonged, but as a shadow let them pass away that fear not the face of the Lord.

for the reward

Psalm 28:4 Give them according to their works, and according to the wickedness of their inventions. According to the works of their hands give thou to them: render to them their reward.

Psalm 62:12 And mercy to thee, O Lord; for thou wilt render to every man according to his works.

Proverbs 1:31 The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all be manifested before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receive the proper things of the body, according as he hath done, whether it be good or evil.

James 2:13 For judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. And mercy exalteth itself above judgment.

given him.

Psalm 120:3,4 What shall be given to thee, or what shall be added to thee, to a deceitful tongue? . . .

Context
A Judgment Against Judah
10Say to the just man that it is well, for he shall eat the fruit of his doings. 11Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.12As for my people, their oppressors have stripped them, and women have ruled over them. O my people, they that call thee blessed, the same deceive thee, and destroy the way of thy steps.…
Cross References
Genesis 18:25
Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with the wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked; this is not beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this judgment.

Deuteronomy 28:15
But if thou wilt not hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep and to do all his commandments and ceremonies, which I command thee this day, all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.

2 Chronicles 6:23
Then hear thou from heaven, and do justice to thy servants, so to requite the wicked by making his wickedness fall upon his own head, and to revenge the just, rewarding him according to his justice.

Job 10:15
And if I be wicked, woe unto me: and if just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with affliction and misery.

Proverbs 1:31
The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Proverbs 12:14
By the fruit of his own mouth shall a man be filled with good things, and according to the works of his hands it shall be repaid him.

Ecclesiastes 8:13
But let it not be well with the wicked, neither let his days be prolonged, but as a shadow let them pass away that fear not the face of the Lord.

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 57:20
But the wicked are like the raging sea, which cannot rest, and the waves thereof cast up dirt and mire.

Isaiah 65:6
Behold it is written before me: I will not be silent, but I will render and repay into their bosom.

Isaiah 65:7
Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, who have sacrificed upon the mountains, and have reproached me upon the hills; and I will measure back their first work in their bosom.

Isaiah 65:20
There shall no more be an infant of days there, nor an old man that shall not fill up his days: for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.

Jeremiah 21:14
But I will visit upon you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the Lord: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof: and it shall devour all things round about it.

Jeremiah 31:30
But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that shall eat the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

Ezekiel 2:10


Ezekiel 18:20
The soul that sinneth, the same shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, and the father shall not bear the iniquity of the son: the justice of the just shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

Ezekiel 24:14
I the Lord have spoken: it shall come to pass, and I will do it: I will not pass by, nor spare, nor be pacified: I will judge thee according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, saith the Lord.

Ezekiel 33:8
When I say to the wicked: O wicked man, thou shalt surely die: if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked man from his way: that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand.

Micah 3:4
Who have eaten the flesh of my people, and have flayed their skin off them: and have broken, and chopped their bones as for the kettle, and as flesh in the midst of the pot.

Micah 7:13
And the land shall be made desolate because of the inhabitants thereof, and for the fruit of their devices.

Isaiah 3:10
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