O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
Parallel translations
- WEB The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.
- BSB The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished.
- NKJV O enemy, destructions are finished forever! And you have destroyed cities; Even their memory has perished.
- NASB The enemy has come to an end in everlasting ruins, And You have uprooted the cities; The very memory of them has perished.
- NLT The enemy is finished, in endless ruins; the cities you uprooted are now forgotten.
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Quick answer
The enemy is brought to endless ruin, their cities and memory wiped out. Evil powers that seemed permanent are utterly undone by God.
Overview
David contrasts the seeming permanence of enemy strongholds with their complete and lasting destruction under God's hand. What boasted of endurance is reduced to forgotten ruins. This sober picture of judgment magnifies the everlasting reign of God set forth in the next verse.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 24
- Exod 14:13And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.
- Isa 14:22–23For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.
- 1 Cor 15:26The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
- Rev 20:2And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
- Mic 7:8Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.
- 1 Sam 31:7And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the valley, and they that were on the other side Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
- Ps 7:5Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
- Isa 10:6–7I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
- Ps 34:16The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
- Isa 14:6–8He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
- Ps 46:9He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
- Ps 8:2Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
- 2 Kgs 19:25Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
- Exod 15:16Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.
- Isa 37:26Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
- Jer 51:25Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
- Mic 7:10Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
- Jer 51:62–64Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
- Isa 10:24–25Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.
- 1 Cor 15:54–57So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
- Isa 14:17That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
- Nah 1:9–13What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
- Isa 10:13–14For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:
- 1 Sam 30:1And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;
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