For surely Your enemies, O LORD, surely Your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.
Parallel translations
- WEB For, behold, your enemies, Yahweh, for, behold, your enemies shall perish. All the evildoers will be scattered.
- KJV For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
- NKJV For behold, Your enemies, O Lord, For behold, Your enemies shall perish; All the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
- NASB For, behold, Your enemies, Lord, For, behold, Your enemies will perish; All who do injustice will be scattered.
- NLT Your enemies, Lord, will surely perish; all evildoers will be scattered.
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Quick answer
God's enemies will surely perish and all evildoers be scattered. Opposition to God is ultimately futile and self-destructive.
Overview
The repeated phrase emphasizes certainty: those who set themselves against the LORD have no future. Their scattering reverses their proud gathering and recalls God's judgments throughout redemptive history. The exalted Christ will finally put all enemies under His feet (1 Corinthians 15:25).
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 37:20But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.
- Ps 89:10You crushed Rahab like a carcass; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.
- Matt 7:23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’
- 2 Th 1:7–9and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels
- Ps 21:8–9Your hand will apprehend all Your enemies; Your right hand will seize those who hate You.
- Ps 68:1–2For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A song. God arises. His enemies are scattered, and those who hate Him flee His presence.
- Ezek 5:12A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.
- Num 10:35Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, “Rise up, O LORD! May Your enemies be scattered; may those who hate You flee before You.”
- Isa 17:13The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.
- Ps 73:27Those far from You will surely perish; You destroy all who are unfaithful to You.
- Ps 59:11Do not kill them, or my people will forget. Scatter them by Your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.
- Ps 68:30Rebuke the beast in the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations, until it submits, bringing bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.
- Luke 21:24They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
- Deut 28:64Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
- Luke 19:27And these enemies of mine who were unwilling for me to rule over them, bring them here and slay them in front of me.’”
- Ps 1:4Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
- Lev 26:33But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.
- Judg 5:31So may all Your enemies perish, O LORD! But may those who love You shine like the sun at its brightest.” And the land had rest for forty years.
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