But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly shall be taken away from it.

but the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful shall be plucked up out of it.

But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and they that deal treacherously shall be rooted out of it.

And the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!

But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.

But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the faithless shall be plucked up out of it.

Yet truly, the impious shall perish from the earth, and those who act unjustly shall be taken away from it.

Transgressors - בוגדים bogedim. The garment men, the hypocrites; those who act borrowed characters, who go under a eloak; dissemblers. All such shall be rooted out of the land; they shall not be blessed with posterity. In general it is so: and were it not so, one evil offspring succeeding another, adding their own to their predecessors' vices, the earth would become so exceedingly corrupt that a second flood, or a fire, would be necessary to purge it.

But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth,.... Suddenly by death; or in a judicial way by the hand of the civil magistrate, before they have lived out half their days; and shall not enjoy the good things of the earth they have been seeking for, and laying up, and promising themselves a long and quiet possession of; but, on the contrary, like unfruitful trees, shall be cut down, and cast into the fire; and, however, shall not dwell in the second Adam's earth, in the new earth, but shall perish out of his land, Psalm 10:16; see Psalm 37:2;
and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it; such as have acted treacherously and perfidiously (c), and are opposed to upright men; as the wicked are to the righteous, pure, and spotless; these shall not only be cut off as trees to the stump, but be rooted up, and have neither root nor branch left them; they shall have no posterity to succeed them, and their memory shall utterly perish; see Malachi 4:1; or "shall be scraped off", or "swept away" (d), as the dust and dross of the earth, and the offscouring of all things.
(c) "perfide agentis", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "perfidi", Cocceius, Michaelis, Schultens. (d) "eradentur", Montanus, Mercerus, Gejerus; "everrentur", Schultens.

transgressors--or impious rebels (compare Jeremiah 9:2).
rooted out--utterly destroyed, as trees plucked up by the roots.