Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

Your arrows pierce the hearts of the king’s enemies;
the peoples fall under you.

New American Standard Bible

Your arrows are sharp;
The peoples fall under You;
Your arrows are in the heart of the King’s enemies.

King James Version

Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.

International Standard Version

Your arrows are sharpened to penetrate the hearts of the king's enemies. People will fall under you.

A Conservative Version

Thine arrows are sharp. The peoples fall under thee. [They are] in the heart of the king's enemies.

American Standard Version

Thine arrows are sharp; The peoples fall under thee; They are in the heart of the king's enemies.

Amplified


Your arrows are sharp;
The peoples (nations) fall under You;
Your arrows pierce the hearts of the King’s enemies.

Bible in Basic English

Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's haters; because of them the peoples are falling under you.

Darby Translation

Thine arrows are sharp peoples fall under thee in the heart of the king's enemies.

Julia Smith Translation

Thine arrows being sharpened peoples shall fall under thee as the heart of the king's enemies.

King James 2000

Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; by which the people fall under you.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Your arrows [are] sharp; peoples fall under you in the midst of the king's enemies.

Modern King James verseion

Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the King's enemies; peoples fall under You.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thy arrows are sharp, and the people shall be subdued unto thee, even in the midst among the king's enemies.

NET Bible

Your arrows are sharp and penetrate the hearts of the king's enemies. Nations fall at your feet.

New Heart English Bible

Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king's enemies.

The Emphasized Bible

Thine arrows, are sharp - Peoples, under thee, fall! In the heart of the foes of the king.

Webster

Thy arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; by which the people fall under thee.

World English Bible

Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king's enemies.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

References

American

Hastings

Context Readings

A Royal Wedding Song

4 in your splendor ride triumphantly
in the cause of truth, humility, and justice.
May your right hand show your awe-inspiring acts.
5 Your arrows pierce the hearts of the king’s enemies;
the peoples fall under you.
6 Your throne, God, is forever and ever;
the scepter of Your kingdom is a scepter of justice.


Cross References

Numbers 24:8

God brought him out of Egypt;
He is like the horns of a wild ox for them.
He will feed on enemy nations
and gnaw their bones;
he will strike them with his arrows.

Psalm 21:12

Instead, you will put them to flight
when you aim your bow at their faces.

Psalm 22:27

All the ends of the earth will remember
and turn to the Lord.
All the families of the nations
will bow down before You,

Psalm 38:2

For Your arrows have sunk into me,
and Your hand has pressed down on me.

Psalm 2:1-9

Why do the nations rebel
and the peoples plot in vain?

Psalm 66:3-4

Say to God, “How awe-inspiring are Your works!
Your enemies will cringe before You
because of Your great strength.

Zechariah 9:13-14

For I will bend Judah as My bow;
I will fill that bow with Ephraim.
I will rouse your sons, Zion,
against your sons, Greece.
I will make you like a warrior’s sword.

Luke 19:42-44

saying, “If you knew this day what would bring peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes.

Luke 20:18-19

Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and if it falls on anyone, it will grind him to powder!”

Acts 2:37

When they heard this, they came under deep conviction and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles: “Brothers, what must we do?”

Acts 2:41

So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about 3,000 people were added to them.

Acts 4:4

But many of those who heard the message believed, and the number of the men came to about 5,000.

Acts 5:14

Believers were added to the Lord in increasing numbers—crowds of both men and women.

Acts 5:33

When they heard this, they were enraged and wanted to kill them.

Acts 6:7

So the preaching about God flourished, the number of the disciples in Jerusalem multiplied greatly, and a large group of priests became obedient to the faith.

Acts 7:54

When they heard these things, they were enraged in their hearts and gnashed their teeth at him.

Romans 15:18-19

For I would not dare say anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to make the Gentiles obedient by word and deed,

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