Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Kill them not, lest my people forget. Scatter them by thy power, and bring them down, O LORD our shield,
New American Standard Bible
O Lord,
King James Version
Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
Holman Bible
By Your power, make them homeless wanderers
and bring them down,
Lord, our shield.
International Standard Version
Don't kill them! Otherwise, my people may forget. By your power make them stumble around; bring them down low, Lord, our Shield.
American Standard Version
Slay them not, lest my people forget: Scatter them by thy power, and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
Amplified
Do not kill them, or my people will forget;
Scatter them and make them wander [endlessly] back and forth by Your power, and bring them down,
O Lord our shield!
Bible in Basic English
Put them not to death, for so my people will keep the memory of them: let them be sent in all directions by your power; make them low, O Lord our saviour.
Darby Translation
Slay them not, lest my people forget; by thy power make them wander, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou wilt not kill them lest my people shall forget: cause them to wander to and fro by thy strength, and bring them down, O Jehovah, our shield.
King James 2000
Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by your power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do not kill them, lest my people forget. Make them [to] wander by your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.
Modern King James verseion
Do not kill them, lest my people forget; scatter them by Your power and bring them down, O Jehovah our shield.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Slay them not, lest my people forget it: but scatter them abroad with thy power, and put them down, O LORD our defense.
NET Bible
Do not strike them dead suddenly, because then my people might forget the lesson. Use your power to make them homeless vagabonds and then bring them down, O Lord who shields us!
New Heart English Bible
Do not kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.
The Emphasized Bible
Do not slay them, lest my people forget, Cause them to wander by thy strength, and prostrate them, Thou our shield, O Lord!
Webster
Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
World English Bible
Don't kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.
Youngs Literal Translation
Slay them not, lest my people forget, Shake them by Thy strength, And bring them down, O Lord our shield.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 59:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Our Stronghold
10 My God with his loving kindness will meet me. God will let me look upon my enemies. 11 Kill them not, lest my people forget. Scatter them by thy power, and bring them down, O LORD our shield, 12 [for] the sin of their mouth, [and] the words of their lips. Let them even be taken in their pride, and for cursing and lying which they speak.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 3:3
But thou, O LORD, are a shield about me, my glory and he who lifts up of my head.
Genesis 4:12-15
When thou till the ground, it shall not henceforth yield to thee its strength. A fugitive and a wanderer thou shall be on the earth.
Leviticus 26:33
And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
Deuteronomy 4:9
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life, but make them known to thy sons and thy son's sons--
Deuteronomy 4:27
And LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left few in number among the nations where LORD shall lead you away.
Deuteronomy 28:64
And LORD will scatter thee among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. And there thou shall serve other gods, which thou have not known, thou nor thy fathers, even wood and stone.
Deuteronomy 30:3-4
that then LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the peoples where LORD thy God has scattered thee.
Judges 1:6-7
But Adoni-bezek fled, and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
Psalm 44:11
Thou have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.
Psalm 52:5
God will likewise destroy thee forever. He will take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
Psalm 84:9
Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
Psalm 84:11
For LORD God is a sun and a shield. LORD will give grace and glory. He will withhold no good thing from those who walk uprightly.
Psalm 106:27
and that he would overthrow their seed among the nations, and scatter them in the lands.
Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know not anything, nor have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.
Ezekiel 12:15-16
And they shall know that I am LORD, when I shall disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries.
Ezekiel 14:22-23
Yet, behold, there shall be left a remnant in it that shall be carried forth, both sons and daughters. Behold, they shall come forth to you, and ye shall see their way and their doings. And ye shall be comforted concerning the evil
Luke 1:51-52
He did a mighty work by his arm. He scattered the proud in the mentality of their heart.
Luke 21:21
Then let those in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those in the midst of it depart out, and let not those in the countrysides enter into it.
Revelation 9:6
And in those days men will seek death, and will, no, not find it. And they will long to die, and death will flee from them.