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 26:36“‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.
• Ps 141:7“As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”
• Jer 6:30Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”
• Ezek 6:5I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
• Lev 26:17I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.
• Ps 83:16–17Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Yahweh.
• 1 Sam 14:15There was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the garrison, and the raiders, also trembled; and the earth quaked, so there was an exceedingly great trembling.
• Jer 8:1–2“At that time,” says Yahweh, “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 28:65–67Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.
• Ps 14:5There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous.
• Ezek 37:1–11Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought me out in Yahweh’s Spirit, and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.
• Ps 40:14Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.
• Ps 35:26Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.
• Ps 2:4He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.
• Ps 73:20As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
• 2 Kgs 7:6–7For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear the sound of chariots, and the sound of horses, even the noise of a great army; and they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us.”
• Ps 35:4Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.
• Job 15:21A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.
• Lam 2:6He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he has destroyed his place of assembly: Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, Has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
• Isa 37:22–38this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

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