Asa went out to meet him, and they drew up their lines of battle in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
Psalm 9:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Put them in fear, O Lord; let the nations know that they are only human. Selah More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Put them in fear, O LORD: That the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Put them in fear [make them realize their frail nature], O Lord, that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! American Standard Version (1901) Put them in fear, O Jehovah: Let the nations know themselves to be but men. [Selah Common English Bible Strike them with fear, LORD. Let the nations know they are only human. Selah Catholic Public Domain Version Rise up, Lord: do not let man be strengthened. Let the Gentiles be judged in your sight. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Arise, O Lord, let not man be strengthened: let the Gentiles be judged in thy sight. |
Asa went out to meet him, and they drew up their lines of battle in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
Deliverance belongs to the Lord; may your blessing be on your people! Selah
Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.
who cuts off the spirit of princes, who inspires fear in the kings of the earth.
Terror and dread fell upon them; by the might of your arm, they became still as a stone until your people, O Lord, passed by, until the people whom you acquired passed by.
I will send my terror in front of you and will throw into confusion all the people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
The Egyptians are human and not God; their horses are flesh and not spirit. When the Lord stretches out his hand, the helper will stumble, and the one helped will fall, and they will all perish together.
I will make an everlasting covenant with them, never to draw back from doing good to them, and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they may not turn from me.
Mortal, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus says the Lord God: Because your heart is proud and you have said, “I am a god; I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,” yet you are but a mortal and no god, though you compare your mind with the mind of a god.
Will you still say, “I am a god,” in the presence of those who kill you, though you are but a mortal and no god, in the hands of those who pierce you?
Thus says the Lord God: I will destroy the idols and put an end to the images in Memphis; there shall no longer be a prince in the land of Egypt, so I will put fear in the land of Egypt.
This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the peoples everywhere under heaven; when they hear report of you, they will tremble and be in anguish because of you.’