Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

Put terror in them, Lord;
let the nations know they are only men.Selah

New American Standard Bible

Put them in fear, O Lord;
Let the nations know that they are but men. Selah.

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] fear of You, O Lord,
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

Man

Context Readings

Celebration Of God's Justice

19 Rise up, Lord! Do not let man prevail;
let the nations be judged in Your presence.
20 Put terror in them, Lord;
let the nations know they are only men.Selah


Cross References

Isaiah 31:3

Egyptians are men, not God;
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

and terror and dread will fall on them.
They will be as still as a stone
because of Your powerful arm
until Your people pass by, Lord,
until the people whom You purchased pass by.

Exodus 23:27

“I will cause the people ahead of you to feel terror and throw into confusion all the nations you come to. I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you in retreat.

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

Men are only a vapor;
exalted men, an illusion.
Weighed in the scales, they go up;
together they are less than a vapor.

Psalm 76:12

He humbles the spirit of leaders;
He is feared by the kings of the earth.

Psalm 82:6-7

I said, “You are gods;
you are all sons of the Most High.

Jeremiah 32:40

“I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put fear of Me in their hearts so they will never again turn away from Me.

Ezekiel 28:2

“Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre: This is what the Lord God says:

Your heart is proud,
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

Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’
in the presence of those who kill you?
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:

I will destroy the idols and put an end
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!”

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