Parallel Verses
Amplified
“Then I would quickly subdue and humble their enemies
And turn My hand against their adversaries;
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
Holman Bible
and turn My hand against their foes.”
International Standard Version
Then I would quickly subdue their enemies. I would turn against their foes.
A Conservative Version
I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
American Standard Version
I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn my hand against their adversaries.
Bible in Basic English
I would quickly overcome their haters: my hand would be turned against those who make war on them.
Darby Translation
I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
Julia Smith Translation
Shortly I shall humble their enemies, and against their adversaries I will turn back my hand.
King James 2000
I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I would subdue their enemies quickly, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
Modern King James verseion
I would soon have humbled their enemies, and would have turned My hand against their foes.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I should soon have put down their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
NET Bible
Then I would quickly subdue their enemies, and attack their adversaries."
New Heart English Bible
I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
The Emphasized Bible
Right soon, their foes, would I subdue, And, against their adversaries, would I turn my hand:
Webster
I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
World English Bible
I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
Youngs Literal Translation
As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand,
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 81:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Call To Obedience
13
“Oh, that My people would listen to Me,
That Israel would walk in My ways!
“Then I would quickly subdue and humble their enemies
And turn My hand against their adversaries;
Those who hate the Lord would pretend obedience to Him and cringe before Him,
And their time of punishment would be forever.
Cross References
Amos 1:8
“And I will cut off and destroy the inhabitants from Ashdod,
And the ruler who holds the scepter, from Ashkelon;
And I will unleash My power and turn My hand [in judgment] against Ekron,
And the rest of the Philistines [in Gath and the towns dependent on these four Philistine cities] shall die,”
Says the Lord God.
Numbers 14:9
Only do not rebel against the Lord; and do not fear the people of the land, for they will be our prey. Their protection has been removed from them, and the Lord is with us. Do not fear them.”
Numbers 14:45
Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down and struck the Israelites and scattered them as far as Hormah.
Joshua 23:13
know and understand with certainty that the Lord your God will not continue to drive these nations out from before you; but they will be a snare and trap to you, and a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.
Judges 2:20-23
So the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and He said, “Because this
Psalm 47:3
He subdues peoples under us
And nations under our feet.
Zechariah 13:7
“Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd,
And against the Man, My Associate,”
Declares the Lord of hosts.
“Strike the Shepherd so that the sheep [of the flock] may be scattered;
And I will turn My hand and stretch it out against the little ones [of the flock].