Psalms 9:20
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Lay terror upon them, O LORD; let the nations know they are but men. Selah”
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“Lay terror upon them, O LORD; let the nations know they are but men. Selah”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Put them in fear, O Lord: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Put them in fear, O Jehovah: Let the nations know themselves to be but men. [Selah”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Appoint, O Jehovah, a director to them, Let nations know they <FI>are<Fi> men! Selah.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 9:20 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 15:16and terror and dread will fall on them. By the power of Your arm they will be as still as a stone until Your people pass by, O LORD, until the people You have bought pass by.
- Exodus 23:27I will send My terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn and run.
- Deuteronomy 2:25This very day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon all the nations under heaven. They will hear the reports of you and tremble in anguish because of you.”
- 2 Chronicles 14:10So Asa marched out against him and lined up in battle formation in the Valley of Zephathah near Mareshah.
- Psalms 3:8Salvation belongs to the LORD; may Your blessing be on Your people. Selah
- Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
- Psalms 76:12He breaks the spirits of princes; He is feared by the kings of the earth.
- Psalms 82:6I have said, ‘You are gods; you are all sons of the Most High.’
- Isaiah 31:3But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.
- Jeremiah 32:40I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.
- Ezekiel 28:2“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.
- Ezekiel 28:9Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you.
- Ezekiel 30:13This is what the Lord GOD says: I will destroy the idols and put an end to the images in Memphis. There will no longer be a prince in Egypt, and I will instill fear in that land.
- Acts 12:22And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!”
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