Psalms 76:6
\76:5\Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them; the men of war have become feeble.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
In Context
5\76:4\You are shining and full of glory, more than the eternal mountains.
7\76:6\At the voice of your wrath, O God of Jacob, deep sleep has overcome carriage and horse.
Cross References
Exodus 14:27And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, at dawn the sea came flowing back, meeting the Egyptians in their flight, and the Lord sent destruction on the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.
Exodus 15:4Pharaoh's war-carriages and his army he has sent down into the sea: the best of his captains have gone down into the Red Sea.
Exodus 15:21And Miriam, answering, said, Make a song to the Lord, for he is lifted up in glory; the horse and the horseman he has sent into the sea.
2 Samuel 10:18And the Aramaeans went in flight before Israel; and David put to the sword the men of seven hundred Aramaean war-carriages and forty thousand footmen, and Shobach, the captain of the army, was wounded, and came to his death there.
2 Chronicles 32:21And the Lord sent an angel who put to death all the men of war and the chiefs and the captains in the army of the king of Assyria. So he went back to his country in shame. And when he came into the house of his god, his sons, the offspring of his body, put him to death there with the sword.
Psalms 80:16\80:15\Even to the tree which was planted by your right hand, and to the branch which you made strong for yourself.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 76:2-7
Triumph in God. 1 In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel. 2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion. 3 There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah. 4 Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey. 5 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands. 6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep. The church is here… Read the whole commentary →