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Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.
Psalms 10:16 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
  • BSB The LORD is King forever and ever; the nations perish from His land.
  • NKJV The Lord is King forever and ever; The nations have perished out of His land.
  • NASB ¶The Lord is King forever and ever; Nations have perished from His land.
  • NLT The Lord is king forever and ever! The godless nations will vanish from the land.

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 17

  • Jer 10:10But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to withstand his indignation.
  • Ps 29:10Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.
  • 1 Tim 1:17Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
  • Deut 8:20As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you wouldn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.
  • Dan 4:34At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.
  • Ps 145:13Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Your dominion endures throughout all generations. Yahweh is faithful in all his words, and loving in all his deeds.
  • Dan 6:26I make a decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; for he is the living God, and steadfast forever, His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed; and his dominion shall be even to the end.
  • Ps 9:5You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
  • Ps 44:2–3You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.
  • 1 Tim 6:15–16which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
  • Isa 33:22For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.
  • Ps 93:1Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.
  • Ps 9:15The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
  • Ps 78:55He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
  • Ps 146:10Yahweh will reign forever; your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise Yah!
  • Ps 18:43–45You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
  • Lam 5:19You, Yahweh, remain forever; Your throne is from generation to generation.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 10:16 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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