Psalm 53:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.

There

Were they in great fear

Psalm 14:5

Scattered

Psalm 141:7

Ezekiel 6:5

Ezekiel 37:1

Thou hast

Psalm 35:4

Psalm 40:14

Psalm 83:16

Because

Lamentations 2:6

General references

Numbers 22:3

Jeremiah 49:15

Bible References

There

And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.

And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:

And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.

For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.

A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.

Were they in great fear

There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.

Scattered

Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,

Thou hast

Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

Because

He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.

And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

General references

And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.

For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.