Psalms 59:11

David asks God to scatter rather than swiftly destroy his enemies, lest the lesson be forgotten. He wants God's just dealing to remain a visible warning.

Cross-references · 20

• Ps 3:3But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
• Rev 9:6And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
• Deut 28:64And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
• Deut 4:27And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.
• Luke 1:51–52He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
• Gen 4:12–15When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
• Job 40:12Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
• Ps 52:5God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
• Ezek 12:15–16And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.
• Judg 1:6–7But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
• Lev 26:33And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
• Luke 21:21Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.
• Ps 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
• Ezek 14:22–23Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it.
• Ps 106:27To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
• Deut 4:9Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;
• Ps 44:11Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
• Deut 30:3–4That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
• Ps 84:9Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
• Eccl 9:5For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

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