Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
Parallel translations
- WEB Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
- BSB Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as prey to their teeth.
- NKJV Blessed be the Lord, Who has not given us as prey to their teeth.
- NASB ¶Blessed be the Lord, Who has not given us to be torn by their teeth.
- NLT Praise the Lord, who did not let their teeth tear us apart!
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Quick answer
Blessed be Yahweh, who did not give them as prey to their enemies' teeth. The people break into praise for God's deliverance.
Overview
The mood turns from peril to praise: 'Blessed be Yahweh.' Using the image of predators' 'teeth,' the psalmist celebrates that God did not let His people be devoured. This blessing of God for rescue anticipates the believer's praise for deliverance from the ultimate enemy through Christ's victory.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Ps 118:13Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.
- Ps 145:5–6I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works.
- Exod 15:9–10The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
- Isa 10:14–19And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
- Ps 17:9From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
- 1 Sam 26:20Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
- Judg 5:30–31Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
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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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