So may all Your enemies perish, O LORD! But may those who love You shine like the sun at its brightest.” And the land had rest for forty years.
Parallel translations
- WEB “So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.
- KJV So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
- NKJV “Thus let all Your enemies perish, O Lord! But let those who love Him be like the sun When it comes out in full strength.” So the land had rest for forty years.
- NASB “May all Your enemies perish in this way, Lord; But may those who love Him be like the rising of the sun in its might.” And the land was at rest for forty years.
- NLT “Lord, may all your enemies die like Sisera! But may those who love you rise like the sun in all its power!” Then there was peace in the land for forty years.
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Quick answer
The song closes praying that all God's enemies perish while those who love Him shine like the rising sun, followed by forty years of peace.
Overview
Deborah's song ends with a prayer that contrasts the doom of God's enemies with the radiant flourishing of those who love Him. The promised rest of forty years shows God's faithfulness to deliver and bless His repentant people. The image of the rising sun anticipates the glory of the righteous, ultimately fulfilled in Christ, the 'sun of righteousness' (Malachi 4:2).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 31
- Ps 37:6He will bring forth your righteousness like the dawn, your justice like the noonday sun.
- 2 Sam 23:4is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’
- Ps 19:4–5their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.
- Dan 12:3Then the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness will shine like the stars forever and ever.
- 1 Pet 1:8Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,
- 1 Cor 8:3But the one who loves God is known by God.
- Ps 89:36his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun,
- Ps 91:14“Because he loves Me, I will deliver him; because he knows My name, I will protect him.
- Jas 1:12Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.
- Ps 83:9–18Do to them as You did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon,
- Judg 3:11So the land had rest for forty years, until Othniel son of Kenaz died.
- Prov 4:18The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
- Matt 13:43Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
- Rom 8:28And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
- Hos 6:3So let us know—let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.
- Jas 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?
- Ps 97:10Hate evil, O you who love the LORD! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
- Ps 97:8Zion hears and rejoices, and the towns of Judah exult because of Your judgments, O LORD.
- Exod 20:6but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
- Judg 3:30So Moab was subdued under the hand of Israel that day, and the land had rest for eighty years.
- Deut 6:5And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
- Ps 58:10–11The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
- Ps 92:9For surely Your enemies, O LORD, surely Your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.
- Ps 48:4–5For behold, the kings assembled; they all advanced together.
- Ps 68:1–3For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A song. God arises. His enemies are scattered, and those who hate Him flee His presence.
- Eph 6:24Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.
- 1 Jn 4:19–21We love because He first loved us.
- 1 Jn 5:2–3By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.
- Rev 6:10And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You avenge our blood and judge those who dwell upon the earth?”
- Rev 19:2–3For His judgments are true and just. He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality. He has avenged the blood of His servants that was poured out by her hand.”
- Rev 18:20Rejoice over her, O heaven, O saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced for you His judgment against her.
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