With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.
Parallel translations
- WEB Through God, we will do valiantly. For it is he who will tread down our enemies.
- KJV Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
- NKJV Through God we will do valiantly, For it is He who shall tread down our enemies.
- NASB Through God we will do valiantly, And it is He who will trample down our enemies.
- NLT With God’s help we will do mighty things, for he will trample down our foes.
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Quick answer
Through God, David is confident they will act valiantly and God will tread down their enemies.
Overview
The psalm ends in triumphant faith: victory is certain because God himself will trample the foe. Human courage flows from divine power, not self-reliance. This confidence that God conquers his enemies anticipates Christ's decisive victory over sin, death, and Satan, in which his people share.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Ps 118:6–13The LORD is on my side; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
- Ps 60:12With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.
- Ps 18:29–34For in You I can charge an army, and with my God I can scale a wall.
- Rom 16:20The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
- Isa 63:3“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.
- 2 Cor 2:14But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.
- Ps 144:1Of David. Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
- Ps 18:42I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I trampled them like mud in the streets.
- Isa 25:10For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.
- Judg 15:8And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.
- Eph 6:10–18Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.
- 2 Chr 20:12Our God, will You not judge them? For we are powerless before this vast army that comes against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon You.”
- 1 Cor 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
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