Parallel Verses
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.
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
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 9:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Celebration Of God's Justice
19
Arise, O Jehovah. Do not let mortals gain any power. Let the nations be judged in your presence.
20
Let the nations know that they are
Cross References
Isaiah 31:3
The Egyptians are humans, not God. Their horses are flesh and blood, not spirit. Jehovah will stretch out his powerful hand (extend his power). The one who gives help will stumble. The one who receives help will fall. Both will die together.
Exodus 15:16
Terror and dread fall upon them. By the greatness of your arm they are motionless as stone. Until your people pass over, O Jehovah, until the people pass over whom you have purchased.
Exodus 23:27
I will send my terror ahead of you and throw any nation you meet into a panic. I will make all your enemies flee from you.
Deuteronomy 2:25
From this day forward I will make all the people and nations through out the earth afraid of you. They will hear reports about you and tremble and be in anguish because of you.
Psalm 62:9
Common people are only a vapor in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a vapor in the wind.
Psalm 76:12
He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is awesome to the kings of the earth.
Psalm 82:6-7
I said: You are god-like ones. You are all sons of the Most High. (John 1:1)
Jeremiah 32:40
I will make an eternal promise to them that I will never stop blessing them. I will make them respect me so that they will never turn away from me.
Ezekiel 28:2
Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre: 'This is what the Lord Jehovah says: 'In your arrogance you say, 'I am a god (strong deity). I sit on God's throne in the sea.' But you are only human and not a god, although you think you are a god. (2 Thes 2:4)
Ezekiel 28:9
You will no longer say that you are a god when you face those who kill you. You will be a human, not a god, in the hands of those who kill you.'
Ezekiel 30:13
This is what the Lord Jehovah says: 'I will destroy the statues and put an end to the idols in Memphis. A prince will never rise again in Egypt. I will spread fear throughout Egypt.
Acts 12:22-23
The people shouted: It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.