Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by your 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.
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.
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 The God of my mercy shall meet me: God shall let me see my desire upon my enemies. 11 Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by your 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 the cursing and lying which they speak.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 3:3
But you, O LORD, are a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of my head.
Genesis 4:12-15
When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield unto you its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shall you be in the earth.
Leviticus 26:33
And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
Deuteronomy 4:9
Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life: but teach them to your sons, and your sons' sons;
Deuteronomy 4:27
And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where the LORD shall lead you.
Deuteronomy 28:64
And the LORD shall scatter you among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known, even wood and stone.
Deuteronomy 30:3-4
That then the LORD your God will return you from captivity, and have compassion upon you, and will return and gather you from all the nations, where the LORD your God has scattered you.
Judges 1:6-7
But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
Job 40:12
Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
Psalm 44:11
You have given us like sheep appointed for food; and have scattered us among the nations.
Psalm 52:5
God shall likewise destroy you forever, he shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
Psalm 84:9
Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of your anointed.
Psalm 84:11
For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Psalm 106:27
To overthrow their descendants also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
Ezekiel 12:15-16
And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.
Ezekiel 14:22-23
Yet, behold, in it shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and you shall see their way and their doings: and you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it.
Luke 1:51-52
He has showed strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
Luke 21:21
Then let them who are in Judea flee to the mountains; and let them who are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the country enter into it.
Revelation 9:6
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.