Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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.

Context Readings

God Our Stronghold

10 My God, his mercy shall anticipate me: God shall cause me to look upon mine enemies. 11 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. 12 The sin of their mouth the word of their lips, and they shall be taken in their pride: and from cursing and from falsehood they will recount.

Cross References

Psalm 3:3

And thou, Jehovah, a shield about me: my glory, and lifting up my head.

Genesis 4:12-15

When thou shalt work the earth she shall not add to give her strength to thee. Wandering and fleeing shalt thou be in the earth.

Leviticus 26:33

And I will scatter you among the nations, and I drew out after you a sword: and your land was a desert, and your cities shall be a desolation.

Deuteronomy 4:9

Only watch to thyself and watch thy soul greatly, lest thou. shalt forget the words which thine eyes saw, and lest they shall remove from thy heart all the days of thy life: and make them known to thy sons and to the sons of thy sons.

Deuteronomy 4:27

And Jehovah scattered you among the peoples, and ye remained men of number among the nations where Jehovah will lead you there.

Deuteronomy 28:64

And Jehovah scattered thee among all peoples from the end of the earth even to the end of the earth; and thou servedst there other gods which thou knewest not, thou and thy fathers, wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 30:3-4

And Jehovah thy God turned back thy captivity, and pitied thee, and he turned back and gathered thee from all the peoples, where Jehovah thy God scattered thee there.

Judges 1:6-7

And lord Bezek will flee, and they will pursue after him and take him; and they will cut off the thumbs of his hands and of his feet

Job 40:12

See every proud one, and humble him; and crush the unjust in their place.

Psalm 44:11

Thou wilt give us as sheep for food, and thou didst scatter us among the nations.

Psalm 52:5

Also God will break thee down forever; he will take thee and sweep thee away from the tent, and root thee up from the land of the living. Silence.

Psalm 84:9

See, O God our shield, and behold the face of thy Messiah.

Psalm 84:11

For Jehovah God a sun and shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; he will not withhold good to those going uprightly.

Psalm 106:27

And to cause their seed to fall among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know they shall die: and the dead know not any thing, and no more to them a reward; for their remembrance was forgotten.

Ezekiel 12:15-16

And they shall know that I am Jehovah, in my scattering them in the nations; and I scattered them in the lands.

Ezekiel 14:22-23

And behold, there was left in it an escaping, sons and daughters being brought forth: behold them, they shall be brought forth to you, and ye saw their way and their doings: and ye were comforted concerning the evil which I brought upon Jerusalem, all which I brought upon her.

Luke 1:51-52

He has done strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thought of their heart.

Luke 21:21

Then let those in Judea flee to the mountain; and those in the midst of her withdraw; and let those in the countries not go into her.

Revelation 9:6

And in those days shall men seek death, and not find it; and shall eagerly desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

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