For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
Parallel translations
- WEB For, behold, your enemies, Yahweh, for, behold, your enemies shall perish. All the evildoers will be scattered.
- BSB For surely Your enemies, O LORD, surely Your enemies will perish; all evildoers will 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 shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
- Ps 89:10Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
- Matt 7:23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
- 2 Th 1:7–9And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
- Ps 21:8–9Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
- Ps 68:1–2Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.
- Ezek 5:12A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
- Num 10:35And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
- Isa 17:13The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
- Ps 73:27For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
- Ps 59:11Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
- Ps 68:30Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.
- Luke 21:24And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
- 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.
- Luke 19:27But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
- Ps 1:4The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
- 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.
- Judg 5:31So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
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