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Amplified


He will execute judgment [in overwhelming punishment] among the nations;
He will fill them with corpses,
He will crush the chief men over a broad country.

New American Standard Bible

He will judge among the nations,
He will fill them with corpses,
He will shatter the chief men over a broad country.

King James Version

He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.

Holman Bible

He will judge the nations, heaping up corpses;
He will crush leaders over the entire world.

International Standard Version

He will execute judgment against the nations, filling graves with corpses. He will utterly destroy leaders far and wide.

A Conservative Version

He will judge among the nations. He will fill with dead bodies. He will strike through the head in many countries.

American Standard Version

He will judge among the nations, He will fill the places with dead bodies; He will strike through the head in many countries.

Darby Translation

He shall judge among the nations; he shall fill all places with dead bodies; he shall smite through the head over a great country.

Julia Smith Translation

He shall judge in the nations; he filled with dead bodies: he crushed the head over much land.

King James 2000

He shall judge among the nations, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall crush the heads over many countries.

Lexham Expanded Bible

He will judge among the nations; he will fill [them] with corpses. He will shatter [the] {rulers} of many countries.

Modern King James verseion

He shall judge among the nations, He shall fill them with dead bodies; He shall shatter heads over much of the earth.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

He shall be judge among the heathen; he shall fill them with dead bodies, and smite in sunder the heads over divers countries.

NET Bible

He executes judgment against the nations; he fills the valleys with corpses; he shatters their heads over the vast battlefield.

New Heart English Bible

He will judge among the nations. He will heap up dead bodies. He will crush the ruler of the whole earth.

The Emphasized Bible

He will judge among the nations - full of dead bodies! He hath shattered the head over a land far extended:

Webster

He will judge among the heathen, he will fill the places with the dead bodies; he will wound the heads over many countries.

World English Bible

He will judge among the nations. He will heap up dead bodies. He will crush the ruler of the whole earth.

Youngs Literal Translation

He doth judge among the nations, He hath completed the carcases, Hath smitten the head over the mighty earth.

References

Fausets

Context Readings

The Priestly King

5
The Lord is at Your right hand,
He will crush kings in the day of His wrath.
6 
He will execute judgment [in overwhelming punishment] among the nations;
He will fill them with corpses,
He will crush the chief men over a broad country.
7
He will drink from the brook by the wayside;
Therefore He will lift up His head [triumphantly].


Cross References

Psalm 68:21


Surely God will shatter the head of His enemies,
The hairy scalp of one who goes on in his guilty ways.

Isaiah 2:4


And He will judge between the nations,
And will mediate [disputes] for many peoples;
And they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not lift up the sword against nation,
And never again will they learn war.

Micah 4:3


And He will judge between many peoples
And render decisions for strong and distant nations.
Then they shall hammer their swords into plowshares
And their spears into pruning hooks [so that the implements of war may become the tools of agriculture];
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
Nor shall they ever again train for war.

Genesis 3:15


“And I will put enmity (open hostility)
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed (offspring) and her Seed;
He shall [fatally] bruise your head,
And you shall [only] bruise His heel.”

1 Samuel 2:10


“The adversaries of the Lord will be broken to pieces;
He will thunder against them in the heavens,
The Lord will judge the ends of the earth;
And He will give strength to His king,
And will exalt the horn (strength) of His anointed.”

Isaiah 11:3


And He will delight in the fear of the Lord,
And He will not judge by what His eyes see,
Nor make decisions by what His ears hear;

Isaiah 34:2-8


For the Lord is angry at all the nations,
And His wrath is against all their armies;
He has utterly doomed them,
He has given them over to slaughter.

Isaiah 42:1

“Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold;
My Chosen One in whom My soul delights.
I have put My Spirit upon Him;
He will bring forth justice to the nations.

Isaiah 42:4


“He will not be disheartened or crushed [in spirit];
[He will persevere] until He has established justice on the earth;
And the coastlands will wait expectantly for His law.”

Isaiah 43:2-4


“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
And through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you.
When you walk through fire, you will not be scorched,
Nor will the flame burn you.

Isaiah 51:5


“My righteousness (justice) is near, My salvation has gone forth,
And My arms will judge the peoples;
The islands and coastlands will wait for Me,
And they will wait with hope and confident expectation for My arm.

Isaiah 66:16-17


For the Lord will execute judgment by fire
And by His sword on all mankind,
And those slain by the Lord will be many.

Isaiah 66:24


“Then they will go forth and look
Upon the dead bodies of the [rebellious] men
Who have transgressed against Me;
For their worm (maggot) will not die,
And their fire will not go out;
And they will be an abhorrence to all mankind.”

Ezekiel 38:21-22

I will call for a sword against Gog throughout all My mountains,” says the Lord God. “Every man’s (invading soldier’s) sword will be against his brother (ally) [in panic and confusion].

Ezekiel 39:4

You will fall [dead] on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the nations who are with you. I will give you to every kind of predatory bird and animal of the field as food.

Ezekiel 39:11-20

“And on that day I will give Gog a place for burial there in Israel, the valley of those who pass through east of the sea, and it will block the way of those who would pass through. So they will bury Gog there with all his hordes, and they will call it the Valley of Hamon-gog (the multitude of Gog).

Joel 3:12-16


Let the nations be stirred [to action]
And come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat,
For there I will sit to judge and punish
All the surrounding nations.

Habakkuk 3:13


You went forth for the salvation of Your people,
For the salvation and rescue of Your anointed [people Israel].
You struck the head from the house of the wicked
To lay him open from the thigh to the neck. Selah (pause, and calmly think of that).

John 5:22

For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment [that is, the prerogative of judging] to the Son [placing it entirely into His hands],

Revelation 14:20

And the grapes in the wine press were trampled and crushed outside the city, and blood poured from the wine press, reaching up to the horses’ bridles, for a distance of sixteen hundred stadia.

Revelation 19:11

And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who was riding it is called Faithful and True (trustworthy, loyal, incorruptible, steady), and in righteousness He judges and wages war [on the rebellious nations].

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