Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Terrify them, Lord! Let the nations know they are mere mortals! (Selah)
New American Standard Bible
Let the nations know that they are
King James Version
Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
Holman Bible
let the nations know they are only men.
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]
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.)
Darby Translation
Put them in fear, Jehovah: that the nations may know themselves to be but 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.
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
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 9:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Celebration Of God's Justice
19 Rise up, Lord! Don't let men be defiant! May the nations be judged in your presence! 20 Terrify them, Lord! Let the nations know they are mere mortals! (Selah)
Cross References
Isaiah 31:3
The Egyptians are mere humans, not God; their horses are made of flesh, not spirit. The Lord will strike with his hand; the one who helps will stumble and the one being helped will fall. Together they will perish.
Exodus 15:16
Fear and dread will fall on them; by the greatness of your arm they will be as still as stone until your people pass by, O Lord, until the people whom you have bought pass by.
Exodus 23:27
"I will send my terror before you, and I will destroy all the people whom you encounter; I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
Deuteronomy 2:25
This very day I will begin to fill all the people of the earth with dread and to terrify them when they hear about you. They will shiver and shake in anticipation of your approach."
Psalm 62:9
Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.
Psalm 76:12
He humbles princes; the kings of the earth regard him as awesome.
Psalm 82:6-7
I thought, 'You are gods; all of you are sons of the Most High.'
Jeremiah 32:40
I will make a lasting covenant with them that I will never stop doing good to them. I will fill their hearts and minds with respect for me so that they will never again turn away from me.
Ezekiel 28:2
"Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: "'Your heart is proud and you said, "I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas" -- yet you are a man and not a god, though you think you are godlike.
Ezekiel 28:9
Will you still say, "I am a god," before the one who kills you -- though you are a man and not a god -- when you are in the power of those who wound you?
Ezekiel 30:13
"'This is what the sovereign Lord says: I will destroy the idols, and put an end to the gods of Memphis. There will no longer be a prince from the land of Egypt; so I will make the land of Egypt fearful.
Acts 12:22-23
But the crowd began to shout, "The voice of a god, and not of a man!"