Psalms 9:20
Rise up, Lord: do not let man be strengthened. Let the Gentiles be judged in your sight.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
In Context
19For the poor will not be forgotten in the end. The patience of the poor will not perish in the end.
21O Lord, establish a lawgiver over them, so that the Gentiles may know that they are only men. Pause
Cross References
Exodus 15:16Let fear and dread fall upon them, by the magnitude of your arm. Let them become immobilized like stone, until your people cross through, O Lord, until this, your people whom you possess, cross through.
Deuteronomy 2:25Today I will begin to send the terror and dread of you among the peoples who are living under all of heaven, so that, when they hear your name, they may be afraid, and may tremble in the manner of a woman giving birth, and may be gripped by anguish.’
Psalms 3:8For you have struck all those who oppose me without cause. You have broken the teeth of sinners.
Psalms 76:12I was mindful of the works of the Lord. For I will be mindful from the beginning of your wonders,
Isaiah 31:3Egypt is man, and not God. And their horses are flesh, and not spirit. And so, the Lord will reach down his hand, and the helper will fall, and the one who was being helped will fall, and they will all be consumed together.
Ezekiel 28:2“Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre: Thus says the Lord God: Because your heart has been exalted, and you have said, ‘I am God, and I sit in the chair of God, in the heart of the sea,’ though you are a man, and not God, and because you have presented your heart as if it were the heart of God:
Matthew Henry on Psalms 9:12-20
A Call to Praise God; Certain Ruin of the Wicked. 11 Sing praises to the Lord , which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings. 12 When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble. 13 Have mercy upon me, O Lord ; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death: 14 That I may show forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation. 15 The heathen are sunk… Read the whole commentary →