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 you shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and you shall flee when none pursues you.

And among these nations shall you find no ease, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest: but the LORD shall give you 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 raiders, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.

For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great army: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel has 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 pursues: 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 cuts and splits wood upon the earth.

And I will lay the dead bodies 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 your name, O LORD.

Because

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

As a dream when one awakes; so, O Lord, when you awake, you shall despise their image.

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

Rejected silver shall men call them, because the LORD has rejected them.

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

General references

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

For, lo, I will make you small among the nations, and despised among men.