Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand,
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;
Bible in Basic English
I would quickly overcome their haters: my hand would be turned against those who make war on them.
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.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 81:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Call To Obedience
13 O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk. 14 As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand, 15 Those hating Jehovah feign obedience to Him, But their time is -- to the age.
Cross References
Amos 1:8
And I have cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, And a holder of a sceptre from Ashkelon, And have turned back My hand against Ekron, And perished have the remnant of the Philistines, Said the Lord Jehovah.
Numbers 14:9
only, against Jehovah rebel not ye: and ye, fear not ye the people of the land, for our bread they are; their defence hath turned aside from off them, and Jehovah is with us; fear them not.'
Numbers 14:45
And the Amalekite and the Canaanite who are dwelling in that mountain come down and smite them, and beat them down -- unto Hormah.
Joshua 23:13
know certainly that Jehovah your God is not continuing to dispossess these nations from before you, and they have been to you for a gin, and for a snare, and for a scourge, in your sides, and for thorns in your eyes, till ye perish from off this good ground which Jehovah your God hath given to you.
Judges 2:20-23
And the anger of Jehovah doth burn against Israel, and He saith, 'Because that this nation have transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened to My voice --
Psalm 47:3
He leadeth peoples under us, and nations under our feet.
Zechariah 13:7
Sword, awake against My shepherd, And against a hero -- My fellow, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts. Smite the shepherd, and scattered is the flock, And I have put back My hand on the little ones.