even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me.
Parallel translations
- KJV It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
- BSB the God who avenges me and subdues nations beneath me,
- NKJV It is God who avenges me, And subdues the peoples under me;
- NASB The God who executes vengeance for me, And subdues peoples under me.
- NLT He is the God who pays back those who harm me; he subdues the nations under me
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Ps 47:3He subdues nations under us, and peoples under our feet.
- Rom 12:19Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”
- 2 Sam 22:48even the God who executes vengeance for me, who brings down peoples under me,
- Nah 1:2Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.
- Ps 144:2my loving kindness, my fortress, my high tower, my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge; who subdues my people under me.
- Deut 32:35Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”
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