Parallel Verses

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!

New American Standard Bible

Do not slay them, or my people will forget;
Scatter them by Your power, and bring them down,
O Lord, our shield.

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

Do not kill them; otherwise, my people will forget.
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.

A Conservative Version

Kill them not, lest my people forget. Scatter them by thy power, and bring them down, O 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.

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.

Context Readings

God Our Stronghold

10 My God of lovingkindness, will come to meet me, God, will let me look on mine adversaries. 11 Do not slay them, lest my people forget, Cause them to wander by thy strength, and prostrate them, Thou our shield, O Lord! 12 The sin of their mouth, The word of their lips, Let them then be captured in their pride, Both for the oath and for the deception they record.


Cross References

Psalm 3:3

But, thou, Yahweh, art a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter up of my head.

Genesis 4:12-15

Though thou till the ground, it shall not go on to give its vigour to thee. A wanderer and a fugitive, shalt thou be in the earth.

Leviticus 26:33

When, even you, I scatter among the nations, And make bare after you, a sword, Then shall your land become an astonishment, And your cities become a desolation.

Deuteronomy 4:9

Only take thou heed to thyself and keep thy soul diligently, so that thou forget not the things which thine own eyes have seen, and so that they go not out of thy heart, all the days of thy life, - but thou shalt make them known unto thy sons and unto thy son's sons: -

Deuteronomy 4:27

and Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, - and ye shall have left remaining of you men easily counted, among the nations whither Yahweh will drive you;

Deuteronomy 28:64

and Yahweh will scatter thee among all the peoples, from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth, - and thou wilt serve there other gods whom thou hast not known - thou nor thy fathers, - of wood and of stone.

Deuteronomy 30:3-4

then will Yahweh thy God bring back thy captivity and have compassion upon thee, - and return and gather thee from among all the peoples whither Yahweh thy God hath scattered thee.

Judges 1:6-7

But Adoni-bezek fled, and they pursued him, - and took him, and cut off his thumbs, and his great toes.

Job 40:12

Look on every one who is high, and humble him, yea tread down the lawless, on the spot:

Psalm 44:11

Thou dost give us up like sheep to be devoured, And, amongst the nations, hast thou scattered us.

Psalm 52:5

GOD also, will break thee down utterly, He will snatch thee up and tear thee away tentless, And uproot thee, out of the land of the living. Selah.

Psalm 84:9

Our Shield, behold thou, O God, And look upon the face of thine Anointed One.

Psalm 84:11

For, a sun and shield, is Yahweh God, - Grace and glory, will Yahweh give, He will not withhold what is good, from them who walk without blame.

Psalm 106:27

And would disperse their seed among the nations, and would scatter them throughout the lands.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For, the living, knew that they should die, - -but, the dead, knew not, anything, neither had they any longer a reward, because forgotten was their memory.

Ezekiel 12:15-16

So shall they know that, I, am Yahweh By my dispersing them among the nations, And scattering them throughout the lands.

Ezekiel 14:22-23

Yet lo! there hath been left therein remnant of fugitives to be brought forth - sons and daughters - There they are! coming forth unto you, And so ye shall see their way, and their doings, and be consoled over the calamity which I have brought in upon Jerusalem even all that I have brought in upon her.

Luke 1:51-52

He hath wrought strength with his arm, He hath scattered men arrogant in the intention of their heart;

Luke 21:21

Then they who are in Judaea, let them flee into the mountains, and they who are in her midst, let them go forth, - and they who are in the fields, let them not enter into her;

Revelation 9:6

And, in those days, shall men seek death, and in nowise shall find it, and shall covet to die, and death fleeth from them.

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