Parallel Verses

King James Version

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

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.

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!

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.

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 shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies. 11 Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield. 12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.


Cross References

Psalm 3:3

But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.

Genesis 4:12-15

When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

Leviticus 26:33

And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

Deuteronomy 4:9

Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;

Deuteronomy 4:27

And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.

Deuteronomy 28:64

And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 30:3-4

That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.

Judges 1:6-7

But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

Job 40:12

Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

Psalm 44:11

Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

Psalm 52:5

God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

Psalm 84:9

Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.

Psalm 84:11

For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

Psalm 106:27

To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Ezekiel 12:15-16

And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.

Ezekiel 14:22-23

Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it.

Luke 1:51-52

He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

Luke 21:21

Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.

Revelation 9:6

And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

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