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 you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.
• Rev 9:6In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
• Deut 28:64Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods, which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.
• Deut 4:27Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations, where Yahweh will lead you away.
• Luke 1:51–52He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
• Gen 4:12–15From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.”
• Job 40:12Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.
• Ps 52:5God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
• Ezek 12:15–16“‘They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries.
• Judg 1:6–7But Adoni-Bezek fled. They pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.
• Lev 26:33I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
• Luke 21:21Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let those who are in the middle of her depart. Let those who are in the country not enter therein.
• Ps 84:11For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
• Ezek 14:22–23Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be carried out, both sons and daughters. Behold, they shall come out to you, and you shall see their way and their doings; and you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought on it.
• Ps 106:27that he would overthrow their offspring among the nations, and scatter them in the lands.
• Deut 4:9Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;
• Ps 44:11You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.
• Deut 30:3–4that then Yahweh your God will release you from captivity, have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
• Ps 84:9Behold, God our shield, look at the face of your anointed.
• Eccl 9:5For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.

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