For behold, Your enemies, O Lord, For behold, Your 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.
- KJV For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
- BSB For surely Your enemies, O LORD, surely Your enemies will perish; all evildoers will 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
Cross-references · 18
- Ps 37:20But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish — vanish like smoke.
- Ps 89:10You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
- Matt 7:23Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’
- 2 Th 1:7–9and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,
- Ps 21:8–9Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.
- Ps 68:1–2For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song. Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him.
- Ezek 5:12A third part of you will die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed within you. A third part will fall by the sword around you. A third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.
- Num 10:35When the ark went forward, Moses said, “Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you flee before you!”
- Isa 17:13The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
- Ps 73:27For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.
- Ps 59:11Don’t kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.
- Ps 68:30Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war.
- Luke 21:24They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
- 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.
- Luke 19:27But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’”
- Ps 1:4The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
- 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.
- Judg 5:31“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.
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