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Psalms 59:11

Psalms 59:11 is verse 11 of Psalms chapter 59, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Do not kill them, or my people will forget. Scatter them by Your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.

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King James Version

Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

World English Bible

Don’t kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.

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Psalms 59:9–13 · Berean Standard Bible

9 I will keep watch for You, O my strength, because You, O God, are my fortress.

10 My God of loving devotion will come to meet me; God will let me stare down my foes.

11 Do not kill them, or my people will forget. Scatter them by Your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.

12 By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.

13 Consume them in wrath; consume them till they are no more, so it may be known to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob. Selah

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Genesis 4:12

When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”

Genesis 4:13

But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Genesis 4:14

Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”

Genesis 4:15

“Not so!” replied the LORD. “If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.

Judges 1:6

As Adoni-bezek fled, they pursued him, seized him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.

Judges 1:7

Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.

Ezekiel 12:15

And they will know that I am the LORD, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries.

Ezekiel 12:16

But I will spare a few of them from sword and famine and plague, so that in the nations to which they go, they can recount all their abominations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

Ezekiel 14:22

Yet, behold, some survivors will be left in it—sons and daughters who will be brought out. They will come out to you, and when you see their conduct and actions, you will be comforted regarding the disaster I have brought upon Jerusalem—all that I have brought upon it.

Ezekiel 14:23

They will bring you consolation when you see their conduct and actions, and you will know that it was not without cause that I have done all these things within it,’ declares the Lord GOD.”

Revelation 9:6

In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.

Psalms 44:11

You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.

Psalms 52:5

Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

Leviticus 26:33

But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.

Deuteronomy 4:27

Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

Deuteronomy 28:64

Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

Deuteronomy 30:3

then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you.

Deuteronomy 30:4

Even if you have been banished to the farthest horizon, He will gather you and return you from there.

Luke 1:51

He has performed mighty deeds with His arm; He has scattered those who are proud in the thoughts of their hearts.

Luke 1:52

He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but has exalted the humble.

Luke 21:21

Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country stay out of the city.

Job 40:12

Look on every proud man and humble him; trample the wicked where they stand.

Psalms 3:3

But You, O LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head.

Psalms 84:11

For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.

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