Parallel Verses
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.
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.
King James 2000
Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them 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 of loyal love will meet me; God will cause me to look [in triumph] on my enemies. 11 Do not kill them, lest my people forget. Make them [to] wander by your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield. 12 [By] the sin of their mouth [and] the words of their lips, even in their pride, let them be trapped, and for [the] curses and lies they proclaim.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 3:3
But you, Yahweh, [are] a shield around me, my glory and the one who lifts up my head.
Genesis 4:12-15
When you till the ground {it shall no longer yield its strength to you}. You shall be a wanderer and a fugitive on the earth."
Leviticus 26:33
And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword behind you; and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a ruin.
Deuteronomy 4:9
"However, {take care} for yourself and watch your inner self closely, so that you do not forget the things that your eyes have seen, so that they do not slip from your mind all the days of your life; and you shall make them known to your children and to {your grandchildren}.
Deuteronomy 4:27
And Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left {few in number} among the nations {to where Yahweh will lead you}.
Deuteronomy 28:64
And Yahweh shall scatter you among all the nations from [one] end of the earth up to the [other] end of the earth, and there you shall serve other gods that you have not known nor your ancestors, [gods of] wood and stone.
Deuteronomy 30:3-4
and Yahweh your God will restore your fortunes, and he will have compassion [upon] you, and {he will again gather you together} from all the peoples where Yahweh your God scattered you there.
Judges 1:6-7
And Adoni-bezek fled, but they pursued after him; they caught him and cut off {his thumbs and big toes}.
Job 40:12
Look at all [the] proud, humble them, and tread down [the] wicked {where they stand}.
Psalm 44:11
You have given us as sheep [for] food, and among the nations you have scattered us.
Psalm 52:5
but God will pull you down forever. He will snatch you and tear you away from [your] tent, and [he] will uproot you from [the] land of [the] living. Selah
Psalm 84:9
Look at our shield, O God, and have regard for the face of your anointed one.
Psalm 84:11
Because Yahweh God [is] a sun and a shield; Yahweh gives grace and honor. He does not withhold good from those who walk blamelessly.
Psalm 106:27
and to disperse their {descendants} among the nations and to scatter them among the lands.
Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything. They no longer have a reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten.
Ezekiel 12:15-16
And they will know that I [am] Yahweh {when I scatter them} among the nations and I scatter them in the countries.
Ezekiel 14:22-23
But look! A remnant will be left over in it, sons and daughters {who will be brought out}. Look! They are coming out to you, and you will see their way, and with their deeds you will be consoled with respect to the evil that I brought over Jerusalem, all of [it] that I brought over it.
Luke 1:51-52
He has done a mighty deed with his arm; he has dispersed the proud in the thoughts of their hearts.
Luke 21:21
Then those in Judea must flee to the mountains, and those {inside it} must depart, and those in the fields must not enter into it,
Revelation 9:6
And in those days people will seek death and will never find it, and they will long to die, and death will flee from them.