Through God we will do valiantly, For it is He who shall tread down 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.
- BSB With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample 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 118:6–13Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
- Ps 60:12Through God we shall do valiantly, for it is he who will tread down our adversaries.
- Ps 18:29–34For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.
- Rom 16:20And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
- Isa 63:3“I have trodden the wine press alone; and of the peoples, no one was with me: Yes, I trod them in my anger, and trampled them in my wrath. Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing.
- 2 Cor 2:14Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.
- Ps 144:1By David. Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:
- Ps 18:42Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
- Isa 25:10For in this mountain Yahweh’s hand will rest. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.
- Judg 15:8He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock.
- Eph 6:10–18Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.
- 2 Chr 20:12Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us. We don’t know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”
- 1 Cor 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
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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.
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