Psalms 9:20
Appoint, O Jehovah, a director to them, Let nations know they [are] men! Selah.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
In Context
19Rise, O Jehovah, let not man be strong, Let nations be judged before Thy face.
Cross References
Exodus 15:16Fall on them doth terror and dread; By the greatness of Thine arm They are still as a stone, Till Thy people pass over, O Jehovah; Till the people pass over Whom Thou hast purchased.
Deuteronomy 2:25This day I begin to put thy dread and thy fear on the face of the peoples under the whole heavens, who hear thy fame, and have trembled and been pained because of thee.
Psalms 3:8Of Jehovah [is] this salvation; On Thy people [is] Thy blessing! Selah.
Psalms 76:12He doth gather the spirit of leaders, Fearful to the kings of earth!
Isaiah 31:3And the Egyptians [are men], and not God, And their horses [are] flesh, and not spirit, And Jehovah stretcheth out His hand, And stumbled hath the helper, And fallen hath the helped one, And together all of them are consumed.
Ezekiel 28:2'Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart hath been high, And thou dost say: A god I [am], The habitation of God I have inhabited, In the heart of the seas, And thou [art] man, and not God, And thou givest out thy heart as 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 →