Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

The rod of thy strength doth Jehovah send from Zion, Rule in the midst of thine enemies.

New American Standard Bible

The Lord will stretch forth Your strong scepter from Zion, saying,
Rule in the midst of Your enemies.”

King James Version

The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

Holman Bible

The Lord will extend Your mighty scepter from Zion.
Rule over Your surrounding enemies.

International Standard Version

When the LORD extends your mighty scepter from Zion, rule in the midst of your enemies.

A Conservative Version

LORD will send forth the rod of thy strength out of Zion. Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

American Standard Version

Jehovah will send forth the rod of thy strength out of Zion: Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

Amplified


The Lord will send the scepter of Your strength from Zion, saying,
“Rule in the midst of Your enemies.”

Darby Translation

Jehovah shall send the sceptre of thy might out of Zion: rule in the midst of thine enemies.

Julia Smith Translation

The rod of thy strength will Jehovah send out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

King James 2000

The LORD shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion: rule you in the midst of your enemies.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Yahweh will send out your mighty scepter from Zion; rule in the midst of your enemies.

Modern King James verseion

Jehovah shall send the rod of Your strength out of Zion; rule in the midst of Your enemies.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The LORD shall send the rod of thy power out of Zion; be thou ruler, even in the midst among thine enemies.

NET Bible

The Lord extends your dominion from Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies!

New Heart English Bible

The LORD will send forth the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies.

The Emphasized Bible

Thy sceptre of strength, will Yahweh extend out of Zion, Tread thou down, in the midst of thy foes.

Webster

The LORD will send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thy enemies.

World English Bible

Yahweh will send forth the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies.

Context Readings

The Priestly King

1 A Psalm of David. The affirmation of Jehovah to my Lord: 'Sit at My right hand, Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.' 2 The rod of thy strength doth Jehovah send from Zion, Rule in the midst of thine enemies. 3 Thy people are free-will gifts in the day of Thy strength, in the honours of holiness, From the womb, from the morning, Thou hast the dew of thy youth.

Cross References

Exodus 7:19

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thy hand against the waters of Egypt, against their streams, against their rivers, and against their ponds, and against all their collections of waters; and they are blood -- and there hath been blood in all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in those of stone.'

Exodus 8:5

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy hand, with thy rod, against the streams, against the rivers, and against the ponds, and cause the frogs to come up against the land of Egypt.'

Psalm 2:8-9

Ask of Me and I give nations -- thy inheritance, And thy possession -- the ends of earth.

Psalm 22:28-29

For to Jehovah is the kingdom, And He is ruling among nations.

Psalm 45:5-6

Thine arrows are sharp, -- Peoples fall under Thee -- In the heart of the enemies of the king.

Psalm 72:8

And he ruleth from sea unto sea, And from the river unto the ends of earth.

Isaiah 2:3

And gone have many peoples and said, 'Come, and we go up unto the mount of Jehovah, Unto the house of the God of Jacob, And He doth teach us of His ways, And we walk in His paths, For from Zion goeth forth a law, And a word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 48:17

Bemoan for him, all ye round about him, And all knowing his name, say ye: How hath it been broken, the staff of strength, The rod of beauty.

Ezekiel 19:14

And go forth doth fire from a rod of its boughs, Its fruit it hath devoured, And it hath no rod of strength -- a sceptre to rule, Lamentation it is -- and it is for a lamentation!'

Ezekiel 47:1

And he causeth me to turn back unto the opening of the house; and lo, water is coming forth from under the threshold of the house eastward, for the front of the house is eastward, and the water is coming down from beneath, from the right side of the house, from the south of the altar.

Daniel 7:13-14

I was seeing in the visions of the night, and lo, with the clouds of the heavens as a son of man was one coming, and unto the Ancient of Days he hath come, and before Him they have brought him near.

Micah 4:2

And gone have many nations and said, Come and we go up to the mount of Jehovah, And unto the house of the God of Jacob, And He doth teach us of His ways, And we do walk in His paths, For from Zion doth go forth a law, And a word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.

Micah 7:14

Rule Thou Thy people with Thy rod, The flock of Thine inheritance, Dwelling alone in a forest in the midst of Carmel, They enjoy Bashan and Gilead as in days of old.

Matthew 28:18-20

And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, 'Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth;

Acts 2:34-37

for David did not go up to the heavens, and he saith himself: The Lord saith to my lord, Sit thou at my right hand,

Romans 1:16

for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

1 Corinthians 1:23-24

also we -- we preach Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to Greeks foolishness,

2 Corinthians 10:4-5

for the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds,

1 Thessalonians 2:13

Because of this also, we -- we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;

1 Peter 1:12

to whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were ministering these, which now were told to you (through those who did proclaim good news to you,) in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, to which things messengers do desire to bend looking.

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