Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

Put them not to death, for so my people will keep the memory of them: let them be sent in all directions by your power; make them low, O Lord our saviour.

New American Standard Bible

Do not slay them, or my people will forget;
Scatter them by Your power, and bring them down,
O Lord, our shield.

King James Version

Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

Holman Bible

Do not kill them; otherwise, my people will forget.
By Your power, make them homeless wanderers
and bring them down,
Lord, our shield.

International Standard Version

Don't kill them! Otherwise, my people may forget. By your power make them stumble around; bring them down low, Lord, our Shield.

A Conservative Version

Kill them not, lest my people forget. Scatter them by thy power, and bring them down, O LORD our shield,

American Standard Version

Slay them not, lest my people forget: Scatter them by thy power, and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

Amplified


Do not kill them, or my people will forget;
Scatter them and make them wander [endlessly] back and forth by Your power, and bring them down,
O Lord our shield!

Darby Translation

Slay them not, lest my people forget; by thy power make them wander, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.

Julia Smith Translation

Thou wilt not kill them lest my people shall forget: cause them to wander to and fro by thy strength, and bring them down, O Jehovah, our shield.

King James 2000

Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by your power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Do not kill them, lest my people forget. Make them [to] wander by your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.

Modern King James verseion

Do not kill them, lest my people forget; scatter them by Your power and bring them down, O Jehovah our shield.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Slay them not, lest my people forget it: but scatter them abroad with thy power, and put them down, O LORD our defense.

NET Bible

Do not strike them dead suddenly, because then my people might forget the lesson. Use your power to make them homeless vagabonds and then bring them down, O Lord who shields us!

New Heart English Bible

Do not kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.

The Emphasized Bible

Do not slay them, lest my people forget, Cause them to wander by thy strength, and prostrate them, Thou our shield, O Lord!

Webster

Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

World English Bible

Don't kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.

Youngs Literal Translation

Slay them not, lest my people forget, Shake them by Thy strength, And bring them down, O Lord our shield.

Context Readings

God Our Stronghold

10 The God of my mercy will go before me: God will let me see my desire effected on my haters. 11 Put them not to death, for so my people will keep the memory of them: let them be sent in all directions by your power; make them low, O Lord our saviour. 12 Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

Cross References

Genesis 4:12-15

No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.

Leviticus 26:33

And I will send you out in all directions among the nations, and my sword will be uncovered against you, and your land will be without any living thing, and your towns will be made waste.

Deuteronomy 4:9

Only take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear that the things which your eyes have seen go from your memory and from your heart all the days of your life; but let the knowledge of them be given to your children and to your children's children;

Deuteronomy 4:27

And the Lord will send you wandering among the peoples; only a small band of you will be kept from death among the nations where the Lord will send you.

Deuteronomy 28:64

And the Lord will send you wandering among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other: there you will be servants to other gods, of wood and stone, gods of which you and your fathers had no knowledge.

Deuteronomy 30:3-4

Then the Lord will have pity on you, changing your fate, and taking you back again from among all the nations where you have been forced to go.

Judges 1:6-7

But Adoni-zedek went in flight; and they went after him and overtook him, and had his thumbs and his great toes cut off.

Job 40:12

Send destruction on all who are lifted up, pulling down the sinners from their places.

Psalm 44:11

You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations.

Psalm 52:5

But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)

Psalm 84:9

O God, let your eyes be on him who is our safe cover, and let your heart be turned to your king.

Psalm 84:11

The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.

Psalm 106:27

That their children might be mixed among the nations, and sent away into other lands.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.

Ezekiel 12:15-16

And they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I send them in flight among the nations, driving them out through the countries.

Ezekiel 14:22-23

But truly, there will still be a small band who will be safe, even sons and daughters: and they will come out to you, and you will see their ways and their doings: and you will be comforted about the evil which I have sent on Jerusalem, even about everything I have sent on it.

Luke 1:51-52

With his arm he has done acts of power; he has put to flight those who have pride in their hearts.

Luke 21:21

Then let those who are in Judaea go in flight to the mountains; and those who are in the middle of the town go out; and let not those who are in the country come in.

Revelation 9:6

And in those days men will be hoping for death, and it will not come to them; and they will have a great desire for death, and death will go in flight from them.

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