Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

Put them in fear, Jehovah: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

New American Standard Bible

Put them in fear, O Lord;
Let the nations know that they are but men. Selah.

King James Version

Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

Holman Bible

Put terror in them, Lord;
let the nations know they are only men.Selah

International Standard Version

Make them afraid, LORD, Let the nations know that they are only human. Interlude

A Conservative Version

Put them in fear, O LORD. Let the nations know themselves to be but men. Selah.

American Standard Version

Put them in fear, O Jehovah: Let the nations know themselves to be but men. Selah

Amplified


Put them in [reverent] fear of You, O Lord,
So that the nations may know they are but [frail and mortal] men. Selah.

Bible in Basic English

Put them in fear, O Lord, so that the nations may see that they are only men. (Selah.)

Julia Smith Translation

Put fear to them, O Jehovah: the nations shall know they are man. Silence.

King James 2000

Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

Lexham Expanded Bible

O Yahweh, put them in fear. Let [the] nations know they [are merely] human. Selah

Modern King James verseion

Put them in fear, O Jehovah, let the nations know they are but men. Selah.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

O LORD, put a schoolmaster over them, that the Heathen may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

NET Bible

Terrify them, Lord! Let the nations know they are mere mortals! (Selah)

New Heart English Bible

Put them in fear, LORD. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.

The Emphasized Bible

Appoint, O Yahweh, a terror for them, - Let the nations know that they are men. Selah.

Webster

Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

World English Bible

Put them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.

Youngs Literal Translation

Appoint, O Jehovah, a director to them, Let nations know they are men! Selah.

References

Easton

Man

Context Readings

Celebration Of God's Justice

19 Arise, Jehovah; let not man prevail: let the nations be judged in thy sight. 20 Put them in fear, Jehovah: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

Cross References

Isaiah 31:3

And the Egyptians are men, and not God, and their horses flesh, and not spirit; and Jehovah shall stretch forth his hand, and he that helpeth shall stumble, and he that is helped shall fall, and they all shall perish together.

Exodus 15:16

Fear and dread fall upon them; By the greatness of thine arm they are still as a stone; Till thy people pass over, Jehovah, Till the people pass over that thou hast purchased.

Exodus 23:27

I will send my fear before thee, and confound every people to which thou comest, and will make all thine enemies turn their back to thee.

Deuteronomy 2:25

This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the peoples under the whole heaven; who will hear report of thee, and will tremble, and quake because of thee.

Psalm 62:9

Men of low degree are only vanity; men of high degree, a lie: laid in the balance, they go up together lighter than vanity.

Psalm 76:12

He cutteth off the spirit of princes; he is terrible to the kings of the earth.

Psalm 82:6-7

I have said, Ye are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High;

Jeremiah 32:40

And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not draw back from them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their heart, that they may not turn aside from me.

Ezekiel 28:2

Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the heart of the seas, (and thou art a man, and not God,) and thou settest thy heart as the heart of God:

Ezekiel 28:9

Wilt thou then say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and not God, in the hand of him that pierceth thee.

Ezekiel 30:13

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause the images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince out of the land of Egypt; and I will put fear in the land of Egypt.

Acts 12:22-23

And the people cried out, A god's voice and not a man's.

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