KJV King James Version
Put them in fear, O LORD: [that] the nations may know themselves [to be but] men. Selah.
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Psalm 9:20
Put them in fear, O LORD: [that] the nations may know themselves [to be but] men. Selah.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Lay terror upon them, O LORD; let the nations know they are but men. Selah
WEB World English Bible
Put them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.
ASV American Standard Version
Put them in fear, O Jehovah: Let the nations know themselves to be but men.[Selah.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Appoint, O Jehovah, a director to them, Let nations know they are men! Selah.
Surrounding context — Psalm 9
17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, [and] all the nations that forget God.
18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall [not] perish for ever.
19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
20 Put them in fear, O LORD: [that] the nations may know themselves [to be but] men. Selah.
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Isaiah 31:3Now the Egyptians [are] men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.Psalm 62:9Surely men of low degree [are] vanity, [and] men of high degree [are] a lie: to be laid in the balance, they [are] altogether [lighter] than vanity.Psalm 82:6-7I have said, Ye [are] gods; and all of you [are] children of the most High.Jeremiah 32:40And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.Psalm 76:12He shall cut off the spirit of princes: [he is] terrible to the kings of the earth.Acts 12:22-23And the people gave a shout, [saying, It is] the voice of a god, and not of a man.Deuteronomy 2:25This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations [that are] under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.Ezekiel 30:13Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause [their] images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.Exodus 23:27I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.Ezekiel 28:9Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I [am] God? but thou [shalt be] a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.Exodus 15:16Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be [as] still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, [which] thou hast purchased.Ezekiel 28:2Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart [is] lifted up, and thou hast said, I [am] a God, I sit [in] the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou [art] a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
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