Parallel Verses

Amplified


Surely God will shatter the head of His enemies,
The hairy scalp of one who goes on in his guilty ways.

New American Standard Bible

Surely God will shatter the head of His enemies,
The hairy crown of him who goes on in his guilty deeds.

King James Version

But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.

Holman Bible

Surely God crushes the heads of His enemies,
the hairy head of one who goes on in his guilty acts.

International Standard Version

God surely strikes the heads of his enemies, even the hairy heads of those who continue in their guilt.

A Conservative Version

But God will smite through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of him who still goes in his guiltiness.

American Standard Version

But God will smite through the head of his enemies, The hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his guiltiness.

Bible in Basic English

The heads of the haters of God will be crushed; even the head of him who still goes on in his evil ways.

Darby Translation

Verily God will smite the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of him that goeth on still in his trespasses.

Julia Smith Translation

Also God will crush the head of his enemies, the crown of him going about in his faults.

King James 2000

But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such a one as goes on still in his trespasses.

Lexham Expanded Bible

But God will shatter the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp [of the one who] {continues on} in his guilt.

Modern King James verseion

Yea, God shall wound the head of His enemies, and the hairy crown of him who walks on in his guilt.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his wickedness.

NET Bible

Indeed God strikes the heads of his enemies, the hairy foreheads of those who persist in rebellion.

New Heart English Bible

But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.

The Emphasized Bible

Yea, God himself, will smite through the head of his foes, - The hairy crown of him that is marching on in his guilty deeds.

Webster

But God will wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such one as goeth on still in his trespasses.

World English Bible

But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.

Youngs Literal Translation

Only -- God doth smite The head of His enemies, The hairy crown of a habitual walker in his guilt.

References

Hastings

Context Readings

God's Majestic Power

20
God is to us a God of acts of salvation;
And to God the Lord belong escapes from death [setting us free].
21 
Surely God will shatter the head of His enemies,
The hairy scalp of one who goes on in his guilty ways.
22
The Lord said, “I will bring your enemies back from Bashan;
I will bring them back from the depths of the [Red] Sea,


Cross References

Habakkuk 3:13


You went forth for the salvation of Your people,
For the salvation and rescue of Your anointed [people Israel].
You struck the head from the house of the wicked
To lay him open from the thigh to the neck. Selah (pause, and calmly think of that).

Psalm 110:6


He will execute judgment [in overwhelming punishment] among the nations;
He will fill them with corpses,
He will crush the chief men over a broad country.

Psalm 7:12


If a man does not repent, God will sharpen His sword;
He has strung and bent His [mighty] bow and made it ready.

Psalm 55:23


But You, O God, will bring down the wicked to the pit of destruction;
Men of blood and treachery will not live out half their days.
But I will [boldly and unwaveringly] trust in You.

Psalm 68:18


You have ascended on high, You have led away captive Your captives;
You have received gifts among men,
Even from the rebellious also, that the Lord God may dwell there.

Proverbs 1:24-33


“Because I called and you refused [to answer],
I stretched out my hand and no one has paid attention [to my offer];

Ezekiel 18:27-30

Again, when a wicked man turns away from his wickedness which he has committed and practices justice and righteousness, he will save his life.

Mark 12:4

Again he sent them another servant, and they [threw stones and] wounded him in the head, and treated him disgracefully.

Luke 13:5

I tell you, no; but unless you repent [change your old way of thinking, turn from your sinful ways and live changed lives], you will all likewise perish.”

Hebrews 2:1-3

For this reason [that is, because of God’s final revelation in His Son Jesus and because of Jesus’ superiority to the angels] we must pay much closer attention than ever to the things that we have heard, so that we do not [in any way] drift away from truth.

Hebrews 12:25

See to it that you do not refuse [to listen to] Him who is speaking [to you now]. For if those [sons of Israel] did not escape when they refused [to listen to] him who warned them on earth [revealing God’s will], how much less will we escape if we turn our backs on Him who warns from heaven?

Revelation 2:14-16

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some [among you] who are holding to the [corrupt] teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, [enticing them] to eat things that had been sacrificed to idols and to commit [acts of sexual] immorality.

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