KJV King James Version
They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Psalm 20:8
They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
They collapse and fall, but we rise up and stand firm.
WEB World English Bible
They are bowed down and fallen, but we rise up, and stand upright.
ASV American Standard Version
They are bowed down and fallen; But we are risen, and stand upright.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
They—they have bowed and have fallen, And we have risen and station ourselves upright.
Surrounding context — Psalm 20
5 We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up [our] banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.
6 Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
7 Some [trust] in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
9 Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.
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Cross-references
Psalm 125:1A Song of degrees. They that trust in the LORD [shall be] as mount Zion, [which] cannot be removed, [but] abideth for ever.Micah 7:8Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD [shall be] a light unto me.Psalm 34:21-22Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.Jeremiah 17:7-8Blessed [is] the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.Judges 5:31So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but [let] them that love him [be] as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.Psalm 146:5-9Happy [is he] that [hath] the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope [is] in the LORD his God:
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