Psalm 53:5

The Passion Translation

Soon, unheard-of terror will seize them while in their sins. God himself will one day scatter the bones of those who rose up against you. Doomed and rejected, they will be put to shame, for God has despised them.

Cross References

Proverbs 28:1

Guilty criminals experience paranoia even though no one threatens them. But the innocent lovers of God, because of righteousness, will have the boldness of a young, ferocious lion!

Ezekiel 6:5

I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols, and I will scatter your bones all around your altars.

Jeremiah 6:30

They are called ‘rejected silver,’ for Yahweh has rejected them.”

Psalm 141:7

Like an earthquake splits open the earth, so the world of hell will open its mouth to swallow their scattered bones.

Psalm 73:20

soon to disappear like a dream when one awakes. When the rooster crows, Lord God, you’ll despise their life of fantasies.

Psalm 40:14

Let all who seek my life be humiliated! Let them be confused and ashamed, God. Scatter those who wish me evil; they just want me dead.

Psalm 35:4

Humiliate those who seek my harm. Defeat them all! Frustrate their plans to defeat me and drive them back. Disgrace them all as they have devised their plans to disgrace me.

Psalm 14:5

But look at them now, in panic, trembling with terror. For God is on the side of his godly lovers.

Psalm 2:4

God-Enthroned merely laughs at them; the Sovereign One mocks their madness!

Lamentations 2:6

He wrecked his temple like a vineyard shack and utterly destroyed his meeting place. Yahweh erased the memory in Zion of his appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In the heat of his anger, he spurned both king and priest.

Jeremiah 49:15

“Behold, I will make you the least of nations; all the world will despise you.