Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

The Lord will stretch forth Your strong scepter from Zion, saying,
Rule in the midst of Your enemies.”

King James Version

The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

Holman Bible

The Lord will extend Your mighty scepter from Zion.
Rule over Your surrounding enemies.

International Standard Version

When the LORD extends your mighty scepter from Zion, rule in the midst of your enemies.

A Conservative Version

LORD will send forth the rod of thy strength out of Zion. Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

American Standard Version

Jehovah will send forth the rod of thy strength out of Zion: Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

Amplified


The Lord will send the scepter of Your strength from Zion, saying,
“Rule in the midst of Your enemies.”

Darby Translation

Jehovah shall send the sceptre of thy might out of Zion: rule in the midst of thine enemies.

Julia Smith Translation

The rod of thy strength will Jehovah send out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

King James 2000

The LORD shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion: rule you in the midst of your enemies.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Yahweh will send out your mighty scepter from Zion; rule in the midst of your enemies.

Modern King James verseion

Jehovah shall send the rod of Your strength out of Zion; rule in the midst of Your enemies.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The LORD shall send the rod of thy power out of Zion; be thou ruler, even in the midst among thine enemies.

NET Bible

The Lord extends your dominion from Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies!

New Heart English Bible

The LORD will send forth the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies.

The Emphasized Bible

Thy sceptre of strength, will Yahweh extend out of Zion, Tread thou down, in the midst of thy foes.

Webster

The LORD will send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thy enemies.

World English Bible

Yahweh will send forth the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies.

Youngs Literal Translation

The rod of thy strength doth Jehovah send from Zion, Rule in the midst of thine enemies.

Context Readings

The Priestly King

1 A Psalm of David.
The Lord says to my Lord:
Sit at My right hand
Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”
2 The Lord will stretch forth Your strong scepter from Zion, saying,
Rule in the midst of Your enemies.”
3 Your people will volunteer freely in the day of Your power;
In holy array, from the womb of the dawn,
Your youth are to You as the dew.


Cross References

Exodus 7:19

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their reservoirs of water, that they may become blood; and there will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”

Exodus 8:5

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the streams and over the pools, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.’”

Psalm 2:8-9

‘Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Your inheritance,
And the very ends of the earth as Your possession.

Psalm 22:28-29

For the kingdom is the Lord’s
And He rules over the nations.

Psalm 45:5-6

Your arrows are sharp;
The peoples fall under You;
Your arrows are in the heart of the King’s enemies.

Psalm 72:8

May he also rule from sea to sea
And from the River to the ends of the earth.

Isaiah 2:3

And many peoples will come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
That He may teach us concerning His ways
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For the law will go forth from Zion
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 48:17

“Mourn for him, all you who live around him,
Even all of you who know his name;
Say, ‘How has the mighty scepter been broken,
A staff of splendor!’

Ezekiel 19:14

‘And fire has gone out from its branch;
It has consumed its shoots and fruit,
So that there is not in it a strong branch,
A scepter to rule.’”
This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.

Ezekiel 47:1

Then he brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, water was flowing from under the threshold of the house toward the east, for the house faced east. And the water was flowing down from under, from the right side of the house, from south of the altar.

Daniel 7:13-14

“I kept looking in the night visions,
And behold, with the clouds of heaven
One like a Son of Man was coming,
And He came up to the Ancient of Days
And was presented before Him.

Micah 4:2

Many nations will come and say,
Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord
And to the house of the God of Jacob,
That He may teach us about His ways
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For from Zion will go forth the law,
Even the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Micah 7:14

Shepherd Your people with Your scepter,
The flock of Your possession
Which dwells by itself in the woodland,
In the midst of a fruitful field.
Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead
As in the days of old.

Matthew 28:18-20

And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

Acts 2:34-37

For it was not David who ascended into heaven, but he himself says:
The Lord said to my Lord,
Sit at My right hand,

Romans 1:16

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

1 Corinthians 1:23-24

but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness,

2 Corinthians 10:4-5

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.

1 Thessalonians 2:13

For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe.

1 Peter 1:12

It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, in these things which now have been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things into which angels long to look.

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