Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They that dwell in the wilderness shall kneel before him, and his enemies shall lick the dust.
New American Standard Bible
And his enemies
King James Version
They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.
Holman Bible
and his enemies lick the dust.
International Standard Version
May the nomads bow down before him, and his enemies lick the dust.
A Conservative Version
Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him, and his enemies shall lick the dust.
American Standard Version
They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; And his enemies shall lick the dust.
Amplified
The nomads of the desert will bow before him,
And his enemies will
Bible in Basic English
Let those who are against him go down before him; and let his haters be low in the dust.
Darby Translation
The dwellers in the desert shall bow before him, and his enemies shall lick the dust.
Julia Smith Translation
Inhabitants of the desert shall bow before him, and his enemies shall lick the dust
King James 2000
They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Let [the] desert dwellers bow down before him, and his enemies lick the dust.
Modern King James verseion
Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before Him; and His enemies shall lick the dust.
NET Bible
Before him the coastlands will bow down, and his enemies will lick the dust.
New Heart English Bible
Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him. His enemies shall lick the dust.
The Emphasized Bible
Before him, let the men of the desert kneel, But, as for his foes, the dust, let them lick;
Webster
They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.
World English Bible
Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him. His enemies shall lick the dust.
Youngs Literal Translation
Before him bow do the inhabitants of the dry places, And his enemies lick the dust.
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 72:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Prayer For The King
8 His dominion shall be from the one sea to the other, and from the flood unto the world's end. 9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall kneel before him, and his enemies shall lick the dust. 10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall give presents; the kings of Sheba and Seba shall bring gifts.
Cross References
Isaiah 49:23
For kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and Queens shall be thy nursing mothers. They shall fall before thee with their faces flat upon the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet: that thou mayest know, how that I am the LORD. And who so putteth his trust in me, shall not be confounded.
Micah 7:17
They shall lick the dust like a serpent, as the worms of the earth, that tremble in their holes. They shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and they shall fear thee.
1 Kings 9:18
and Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness that is in the land;
1 Kings 9:20-21
And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,
Psalm 2:9
Thou shalt bruise them with a rod of iron, and break them in pieces like a potter's vessel."
Psalm 21:8-9
All thine enemies shall feel thine hand; thy righthand shall find out them that hate thee.
Psalm 22:29
All such as be fat upon earth have eaten and worshipped. All they that go down into the dust shall kneel before him; and no man hath quickened his own soul.
Psalm 110:1
{A Psalm of David} The LORD said unto my LORD, "Sit thou on my righthand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool."
Psalm 110:6
He shall be judge among the heathen; he shall fill them with dead bodies, and smite in sunder the heads over divers countries.
Isaiah 35:1-2
But the desert and wilderness shall rejoice, the waste ground shall be glad, and flourish as the lily.
Luke 19:27
Moreover, those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.'"