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

I will set My face against you so that you will be struck down before your enemies; and those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one is pursuing you.

Among those nations you shall find no rest, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul.

And there was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. Even the garrison and the raiders trembled, and the earth quaked so that it became a great trembling.

For the Lord had caused the army of the Arameans to hear a sound of chariots and a sound of horses, even the sound of a great army, so that they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.”

“Sounds of terror are in his ears;

While at peace the destroyer comes upon him.

The wicked flee when no one is pursuing,
But the righteous are bold as a lion.

Were they in great fear

There they are in great dread,
For God is with the righteous generation.

Scattered

As when one plows and breaks open the earth,
Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

I will also lay the dead bodies of the sons of Israel in front of their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

The hand of the Lord was upon me, and He brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.

Thou hast

Let those be ashamed and dishonored who seek my life;
Let those be turned back and humiliated who devise evil against me.

Let those be ashamed and humiliated together
Who seek my life to destroy it;
Let those be turned back and dishonored
Who delight in my hurt.

Fill their faces with dishonor,

That they may seek Your name, O Lord.

Because

He who sits in the heavens laughs,
The Lord scoffs at them.

Like a dream when one awakes,
O Lord, when aroused, You will despise their form.

this is the word that the Lord has spoken against him:
“She has despised you and mocked you,
The virgin daughter of Zion;
She has shaken her head behind you,
The daughter of Jerusalem!

They call them rejected silver,

Because the Lord has rejected them.

And He has violently treated His tabernacle like a garden booth;
He has destroyed His appointed meeting place.
The Lord has caused to be forgotten
The appointed feast and sabbath in Zion,
And He has despised king and priest
In the indignation of His anger.

General references

So Moab was in great fear because of the people, for they were numerous; and Moab was in dread of the sons of Israel.

“For behold, I have made you small among the nations,
Despised among men.