Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
They feared a fear; there was no fear: for God scattered the bones of him making narrow: thou didst make ashamed, for God rejected them.
New American Standard Bible
For God
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King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
terror like no other
because God will scatter
the bones of those who besiege you.
You will put them to shame,
for God has rejected them.
International Standard Version
There the Israelis were seized with terror, when there was nothing to fear. For God scattered the bones of those who laid siege against you you put them to shame, for God rejected them.
A Conservative Version
There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against thee. Thou have put them to shame because God has rejected them.
American Standard Version
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 of God hath rejected them.
Amplified
There they were, in great terror and dread, where there had been no terror or dread;
For God scattered the bones of him who besieged you;
You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.
Bible in Basic English
They were in great fear, where there was no cause for fear: for the bones of those who make war on you have been broken by God; you have put them to shame, because God has no desire for them.
Darby Translation
There were they in great fear, where no fear was; for God scattereth the bones of him that encampeth against thee. Thou hast put them to shame, for God hath despised them.
King James 2000
There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God has scattered the bones of him that encamps against you: you have put them to shame, because God has despised them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
There {they are very fearful} [where] no fear had been, because God has scattered the bones of him who encamps [against] you. You have put [them] to shame, because God has rejected them.
Modern King James verseion
There they dreaded with dread, where no dread was; for God has scattered the bones of him who camps against you; you have put them to shame because God rejects them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They are afraid where no fear is; for God breaketh the bones of them that besiege thee. Thou hast put them to confusion, because God hath despised them.
NET Bible
They are absolutely terrified, even by things that do not normally cause fear. For God annihilates those who attack you. You are able to humiliate them because God has rejected them.
New Heart English Bible
There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.
The Emphasized Bible
There have they been in great dread where no dread was, Because, God, hath scattered the bones of thy besieger, - Thou hast put him to shame, Because, God, had, rejected, them.
Webster
There they were 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.
World English Bible
There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.
Youngs Literal Translation
There they feared a fear -- there was no fear, For God hath scattered the bones of him Who is encamping against thee, Thou hast put to shame, For God hath despised them.
Themes
God » Special judgments inflicted » Bones scattered
God's Judgments » Special judgments inflicted » Bones scattered
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 53:5
Prayers for Psalm 53:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
There Is None Who Does Good
4 Did not those transgressing know any thing? eating up my people, they ate bread: they called not upon God. 5 They feared a fear; there was no fear: for God scattered the bones of him making narrow: thou didst make ashamed, for God rejected them. 6 Who will give from Zion the salvation of Israel? In God turning back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Leviticus 26:17
And I gave my face against you, and ye were slain before your enemies: and they hating you ruled over you, and ye fled and none pursued you.
Ezekiel 6:5
And I gave the carcasses of the sons of Israel before their blocks; and I scattered your bones round about your altars.
Leviticus 26:36
And they remaining of you, and I brought timidity into their heart in the land of their enemies; and the voice of a driven leaf pursued them, and they fled, fleeing the sword; and they fell, and none pursued.
Psalm 141:7
As he cutting up and cleaving asunder in the earth, our bones were scattered at the mouth of hades.
Proverbs 28:1
The unjust fled and none pursuing, and the just shall be confident as the young lion.
Jeremiah 6:30
They called to them, Rejected silver, because Jehovah rejected them.
Deuteronomy 28:65-67
And among these nations thou shalt not rest, and there shall not be rest to the sole of thy foot: and Jehovah gave to thee there a trembling heart and a wasting away of the eyes, and a faintnesss of soul.
1 Samuel 14:15
And terror will be in the camp, in the field, and in all the people of the garrison: and the destroyers trembled, they also, and the earth will be moved; and it will be for the terror of God.
2 Kings 7:6-7
And Jehovah caused the camp of Aram to hear a voice of chariot and a voice of horse, a voice of great strength: and they will say a man to his brother, Behold, the king of Israel hired the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come upon us.
Job 15:21
The voice of fears in his ears: in peace he destroying shall come upon him.
Psalm 2:4
He dwelling in the heavens shall laugh: Jehovah shall deride to them.
Psalm 14:5
There they feared a fear: for God is in the generation of the just one.
Psalm 35:4
They seeking my soul shall be ashamed and disgraced: they shall be drawn back and be ashamed purposing my evil
Psalm 35:26
They shall be ashamed and they shall blush together, rejoicing for my evil: they shall be clothed with shame and reproach, magnifying against me.
Psalm 40:14
They shall be ashamed and blush together seeking my soul to take it away; they shall be turned back, and they delighting in my evil shall be ashamed.
Psalm 73:20
As a dream of him awaking, O Jehovah, in awaking thou wilt despise their image.
Psalm 83:16-17
Fill their face with contempt, and they shall seek thy name, O Jehovah.
Isaiah 37:22-38
This the word that Jehovah spake concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion despising to thee, deriding to thee; the daughter of Jerusalem shook her head after thee.
Jeremiah 8:1-2
In that time, says Jehovah, and they shall bring forth the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his chiefs, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
Lamentations 2:6
And he will tear away as a garden his dwelling: he destroyed his appointment: Jehovah caused to forget the appointment in Zion, and the Sabbath, and he will despise in the wrath of his anger the king and the priest.
Ezekiel 37:1-11
The hand of Jehovah was upon me, and he will bring me forth in the spirit of Jehovah, and he will set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was filled with bones.