Through You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies.
Parallel translations
- WEB Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.
- KJV Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
- NKJV Through You we will push down our enemies; Through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us.
- NASB Through You we will push back our adversaries; Through Your name we will trample down those who rise up against us.
- NLT Only by your power can we push back our enemies; only in your name can we trample our foes.
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Quick answer
Through God and His name His people overcome their enemies. It matters because strength to prevail comes from trusting in God, not in oneself.
Overview
The imagery of pushing down and treading underfoot describes complete conquest, accomplished 'through' God and 'through' His name. The name of God stands for His revealed character and power. Believers in Christ likewise overcome not by their own might but by the authority of His name.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Ps 108:13With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.
- Ps 60:12With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.
- Ps 118:10–13All the nations surrounded me, but in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
- Phil 4:13I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.
- Deut 33:17His majesty is like a firstborn bull, and his horns are like those of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even to the ends of the earth. Such are the myriads of Ephraim, and such are the thousands of Manasseh.”
- Zech 10:5They will be like mighty men in battle, trampling the enemy in the mire of the streets. They will fight because the LORD is with them, and they will put the horsemen to shame.
- Dan 8:4I saw the ram charging toward the west and the north and the south. No animal could stand against him, and there was no deliverance from his power. He did as he pleased and became great.
- Ps 91:13You will tread on the lion and cobra; you will trample the young lion and serpent.
- Isa 41:14–16Do not fear, O worm of Jacob, O few men of Israel. I will help you,” declares the LORD. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
- 1 Kgs 22:11Now Zedekiah son of Chenaanah had made for himself iron horns and declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘With these you shall gore the Arameans until they are finished off.’”
- Rom 16:20The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
- Ps 18:39–42You have armed me with strength for battle; You have subdued my foes beneath 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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