Psalms 53:5

God strikes sudden terror into the wicked and scatters their forces, shaming those he has rejected. It assures that God overthrows his enemies even at the height of their confidence.

Cross-references · 21

• Prov 28:1The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
• Lev 26:36As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.
• Ps 141:7As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
• Jer 6:30They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
• Ezek 6:5I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.
• Lev 26:17And I will set My face against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.
• Ps 83:16–17Cover their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O LORD.
• 1 Sam 14:15Then terror struck the Philistines in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. Even those in the outposts and raiding parties trembled. Indeed, the earth quaked and panic spread from God.
• Jer 8:1–2“At that time,” declares the LORD, “the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves.
• Deut 28:65–67Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.
• Ps 14:5There they are, overwhelmed with dread, for God is in the company of the righteous.
• Ezek 37:1–11The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones.
• Ps 40:14May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated.
• Ps 35:26May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.
• Ps 2:4The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord taunts them.
• Ps 73:20Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.
• 2 Kgs 7:6–7For the Lord had caused the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots, horses, and a great army, so that they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel must have hired the kings of the Hittites and Egyptians to attack us.”
• Ps 35:4May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame; may those who plan to harm me be driven back and confounded.
• Job 15:21Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.
• Lam 2:6He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.
• Isa 37:22–38this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.

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