Psalm 72:9

Modern English Version

May those who dwell in the wilderness bow before him, and his enemies lick the dust.

Cross References

Genesis 3:14

The Lord God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, You are cursed above all livestock, and above every beast of the field; you will go on your belly, and you will eat dust all the days of your life.

1 Kings 9:18

and Baalath and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,

Psalm 110:1

The Lord said to my lord, “Sit at My right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.”

Psalm 110:6

He will judge among the nations; He will fill them with dead bodies; He will execute the heads over many countries.

Psalm 2:9

You will break them with a rod of iron; you will dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

Psalm 22:29

All the prosperous ones of the earth will eat and worship; all who go down to the dust will bow before Him, even he who cannot preserve his own life.

Isaiah 49:23

kings shall be your foster fathers and their queens your nursing mothers; they shall bow down to you with their faces toward the ground and lick up the dust of your feet. And you shall know that I am the Lord, for those who wait for Me shall not be ashamed.

Micah 7:17

They will lick dust like the serpent, like crawling creatures of the earth; they will come shuddering from their lairs. They will turn in dread to the Lord our God, and they will be afraid of You.

Luke 19:27

But as for those enemies of mine, who would not let me reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.’ ”