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 ye shall fall before your enemies, and they that hate you shall reign over you, and ye shall flee when no man followeth you.

And among these nations thou shalt be no small season, and yet shalt have no rest for the sole of thy foot. For the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart and dazing eyes and sorrow of mind.

And there was a fear in the host that was in the field, and among all the people: insomuch that they that kept the hold, and they that were gone to rob, were afraid also: and the earth trembled and there was a fear sent of God.

For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians hear a noise of chariots and a noise of horses, and the noise of a great Host. Insomuch that they said one to another, "See, the king of Israel hath hired against us, the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt, to come upon us."

A fearful sound is ever in his ears, and when it is peace yet feareth he destruction.

The ungodly fleeth, no man chasing him; but the righteous standeth stiff as a lion.

Were they in great fear

There were they brought in great fear, even where no fear was; for God is in the generation of the righteous.

Scattered

Our bones lie scattered before the pit, like as when one graveth and diggeth up the ground.

And the dead carcasses of the children of Israel will I cast before their images, your bones will I straw round about your altars and dwelling places.

The hand of the LORD came upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and let me down in a plain field that lay 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 imagine mischief for me.

Let them be ashamed and confounded together, that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward, and put to rebuke, that wish me evil.

Make their faces ashamed, O LORD, that they may seek thy name.

Because

He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn: the Lord shall have them in derision.

Yea, even like as a dream when one awaketh, so makest thou their image to vanish out of the city.

this is the answer, that the LORD hath given concerning him: Despised art thou, and mocked, O daughter of Zion, he hath shaken his head at thee, O daughter of Jerusalem.

Therefore shall they be called reprobate silver, because the LORD hath cast them out."

{Vav} Her tabernacle - which was like a garden of pleasure - hath he destroyed; her high solemn feasts hath he put down. The LORD hath brought it so to pass, that the high solemn feasts and Sabbaths in Zion are clean forgotten. In his heavy displeasure hath he made the king and priests to be despised.

General references

and the Moabites were sore afraid of the people, because they were many; and abhorred the children of Israel.

for lo: I will make thee but small among the Heathen, and little regarded among men.