Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
I would quickly overcome their haters: my hand would be turned against those who make war on them.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
Holman Bible
and turn My hand against their foes.”
International Standard Version
Then I would quickly subdue their enemies. I would turn against their foes.
A Conservative Version
I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
American Standard Version
I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn my hand against their adversaries.
Amplified
“Then I would quickly subdue and humble their enemies
And turn My hand against their adversaries;
Darby Translation
I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
Julia Smith Translation
Shortly I shall humble their enemies, and against their adversaries I will turn back my hand.
King James 2000
I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I would subdue their enemies quickly, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
Modern King James verseion
I would soon have humbled their enemies, and would have turned My hand against their foes.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I should soon have put down their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
NET Bible
Then I would quickly subdue their enemies, and attack their adversaries."
New Heart English Bible
I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
The Emphasized Bible
Right soon, their foes, would I subdue, And, against their adversaries, would I turn my hand:
Webster
I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
World English Bible
I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
Youngs Literal Translation
As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand,
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 81:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Call To Obedience
13 If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways! 14 I would quickly overcome their haters: my hand would be turned against those who make war on them. 15 The haters of the Lord would be broken, and their destruction would be eternal.
Cross References
Amos 1:8
Him who is seated in power I will have cut off from Ashdod, and him in whose hand is the rod from Ashkelon; and my hand will be turned against Ekron, and the rest of the Philistines will come to destruction, says the Lord God.
Numbers 14:9
Only, do not go against the Lord or go in fear of the people of the land, for they will be our food; their strength has been taken from them and the Lord is with us: have no fear of them.
Numbers 14:45
Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who were living in the hill-country, and overcame them completely, driving them back as far as Hormah.
Joshua 23:13
Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you; but they will become a danger and a cause of sin to you, a whip for your sides and thorns in your eyes, till you are cut off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.
Judges 2:20-23
And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he said, Because this nation has not been true to my agreement which I made with their fathers, and has not given ear to my voice;
Psalm 47:3
He will put down the peoples under us, and the nations under our feet.
Zechariah 13:7
Awake! O sword, against the keeper of my flock, and against him who is with me, says the Lord of armies: put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep will go in flight: and my hand will be turned against the little ones.