Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
let the nations know they are only men.
New American Standard Bible
Let the nations know that they are
King James Version
Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
International Standard Version
Make them afraid, LORD, Let the nations know that they are only human. Interlude
A Conservative Version
Put them in fear, O LORD. Let the nations know themselves to be but men. Selah.
American Standard Version
Put them in fear, O Jehovah: Let the nations know themselves to be but men. Selah
Amplified
Put them in [reverent]
So that the nations may know they are but [frail and mortal] men. Selah.
Bible in Basic English
Put them in fear, O Lord, so that the nations may see that they are only men. (Selah.)
Darby Translation
Put them in fear, Jehovah: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
Julia Smith Translation
Put fear to them, O Jehovah: the nations shall know they are man. Silence.
King James 2000
Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
Lexham Expanded Bible
O Yahweh, put them in fear. Let [the] nations know they [are merely] human. Selah
Modern King James verseion
Put them in fear, O Jehovah, let the nations know they are but men. Selah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O LORD, put a schoolmaster over them, that the Heathen may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
NET Bible
Terrify them, Lord! Let the nations know they are mere mortals! (Selah)
New Heart English Bible
Put them in fear, LORD. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.
The Emphasized Bible
Appoint, O Yahweh, a terror for them, - Let the nations know that they are men. Selah.
Webster
Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
World English Bible
Put them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.
Youngs Literal Translation
Appoint, O Jehovah, a director to them, Let nations know they are men! Selah.
References
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 9:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Celebration Of God's Justice
19
let the nations be judged in Your presence.
let the nations know they are only men.
Cross References
Isaiah 31:3
their horses are flesh, not spirit.
When the Lord raises His hand to strike,
the helper will stumble
and the one who is helped will fall;
both will perish together.
Exodus 15:16
They will be as still
because of Your powerful arm
until Your people pass by, Lord,
until the people whom You purchased
Exodus 23:27
“I will cause the people ahead of you to feel terror
Deuteronomy 2:25
Today I will begin to put the fear and dread of you on the peoples everywhere under heaven. They will hear the report about you, tremble, and be in anguish because of you.’
Psalm 62:9
exalted men, an illusion.
Weighed in the scales, they go up;
together they are less than a vapor.
Psalm 76:12
He is feared by the kings of the earth.
Psalm 82:6-7
you are all sons of the Most High.
Jeremiah 32:40
“I will make an everlasting covenant with them:
Ezekiel 28:2
“Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre: This is what the Lord God says:
and you have said, ‘I am a god;
I sit in the seat of gods
in the heart of the sea.’
Yet you are a man and not a god,
though you have regarded your heart
as that of a god.
Ezekiel 28:9
in the presence of those who kill
Yet you will be only a man, not a god,
in the hands of those who kill you.
Ezekiel 30:13
This is what the Lord God says:
to the false gods in Memphis.
There will no longer be
a prince from the land of Egypt.
So I will instill fear in that land.
Acts 12:22-23
The assembled people began to shout, “It’s the voice of a god and not of a man!”