Psalm 9:20 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

Strike them with terror, O LORD. Let the nations know that they are only mortal. Selah(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

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

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

JPS:

Set terror over them, O LORD; let the nations know they are but men. Selah

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

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

Psalm 9:20 Cross References

XREF:

Psalm 14:5 There they are in great dread, For God is with the righteous generation.

Psalm 62:9 Men of low degree are only vanity and men of rank are a lie; In the balances they go up; They are together lighter than breath. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

9:20 Put them in fear, O LORD: [that] the nations may know themselves [to be but] {k} men. Selah.
(k) Which they cannot learn without the fear of your judgment.

MHC:

9:11-20 Those who believe that God is greatly to be praised, not only desire to praise him better themselves, but desire that others may join with them. There is a day coming, when it will appear that he has not forgotten the cry of the humble; neither the cry of their blood, or the cry of their prayers. We are never brought so low, so near to death, but God can raise us up. If he has saved us from spiritual and eternal death, we may thence hope, that in all our distresses he will be a very present help to us. The overruling providence of God frequently so orders it, that persecutors and oppressors are brought to ruin by the projects they formed to destroy the people of God. Drunkards kill themselves; prodigals beggar themselves; the contentious bring mischief upon themselves: thus men's sins may be read in their punishment, and it becomes plain to all, that the destruction of sinners is of themselves. All wickedness came originally with the wicked one from hell; and those who continue in sin, must go to that place of torment. The true state, both of nations and of individuals, may be correctly estimated by this one rule, whether in their doings they remember or forget God. David encourages the people of God to wait for his salvation, though it should be long deferred. God will make it appear that he never did forget them: it is not possible he should. Strange that man, dust in his and about him, should yet need some sharp affliction, some severe visitation from God, to bring him to the knowledge of himself, and make him feel who and what he is.

CONC:

Appoint Director Fear Nations O Selah Terror Themselves

Appoint Director Fear Nations Selah Strike Terror Themselves

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