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 man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
• Lev 26:36And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
• Ps 141:7Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
• Jer 6:30Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
• Ezek 6:5And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
• Lev 26:17And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
• Ps 83:16–17Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
• 1 Sam 14:15And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.
• Jer 8:1–2At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
• Deut 28:65–67And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
• Ps 14:5There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
• Ezek 37:1–11The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
• Ps 40:14Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
• Ps 35:26Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
• Ps 2:4He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.
• Ps 73:20As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
• 2 Kgs 7:6–7For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
• Ps 35:4Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
• Job 15:21A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
• Lam 2:6And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
• Isa 37:22–38This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

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