Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
Parallel translations
- WEB Through God, we will do valiantly. For it is he who will tread down our enemies.
- BSB With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample 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 fear: what can man do unto me?
- Ps 60:12Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
- Ps 18:29–34For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
- Rom 16:20And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
- Isa 63:3I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
- 2 Cor 2:14Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
- Ps 144:1Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
- Ps 18:42Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
- Isa 25:10For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
- Judg 15:8And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
- Eph 6:10–18Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
- 2 Chr 20:12O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
- 1 Cor 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
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