Psalms 81:14 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 81:14

I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

KJV

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ASV

I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn my hand against their adversaries.

WEB

how soon I would subdue their enemies and turn My hand against their foes!

YLT

As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand,

DBT

I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

About this book

Old Testament

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

10 verses on the floor

Amos 1:8
And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord God.
Judges 2:20–23
And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
Joshua 23:13
Know for a certainty that the Lord your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given you.
Numbers 14:9
Only rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the Lord is with us: fear them not.
Psalms 47:3
He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices5

On this verse

Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

This, though spoken primarily of Israel of old, is written for our learning, and is therefore to be sung with application. To the chief musician upon Gittith. 1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

): I should have subdued their enemies; and it is God only that is to be depended on for the subduing of our enemies. Not would had have put them to the expense and fatigue of a tedious war: he would soon have done it; for he would have turned his hand against their adversaries, and then they would not have been able to stand before them.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Testimony - For a witness of that glorious deliverance. Went - As a captain at the head of his people. Egypt - To execute his judgments upon that land.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

), designed to show how unwilling God is that any should perish and desirous that all should come to repentance (he delights not in the ruin of sinful persons or nations), and also what enemies sinners are to themselves and what an aggravation it will be of their misery that they might have been happy upon such easy terms.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Obedience would have secured all promised blessings and the subjection of foes. In this passage, "should have," "would have," &c., are better, "should" and "would" expressing God's intention at the time, that is, when they left Egypt.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Words4

Word trails from this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 81:14NUM 14:9 DEU 7:18
PSA 81:14NUM 14:9 DEU 31:6
PSA 81:14NUM 14:9 ROM 8:31
PSA 81:14AMO 1:8 EZE 25:16
PSA 81:14NUM 14:9 NUM 24:8
PSA 81:14NUM 14:9 DEU 31:8
PSA 81:14JOS 23:13 DEU 7:16
PSA 81:14NUM 14:45 NUM 21:3

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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