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Psalms 68:21

Psalms 68:21 is verse 21 of Psalms chapter 68, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Surely God will crush the heads of His enemies, the hairy crowns of those who persist in guilty ways.

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King James Version

But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.

World English Bible

But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.

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Psalms 68:19–23 · Berean Standard Bible

19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, the God of our salvation. Selah

20 Our God is a God of deliverance; the Lord GOD is our rescuer from death.

21 Surely God will crush the heads of His enemies, the hairy crowns of those who persist in guilty ways.

22 The Lord said, “I will retrieve them from Bashan, I will bring them up from the depths of the sea,

23 that your foot may be dipped in the blood of your foes— the tongues of your dogs in the same.”

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Cross-references

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

Psalms 110:6

He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead; He will crush the leaders far and wide.

Habakkuk 3:13

You went forth for the salvation of Your people, to save Your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked and stripped him from head to toe. Selah

Mark 12:4

Then he sent them another servant, and they struck him over the head and treated him shamefully.

Psalms 55:23

But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

Psalms 68:18

You have ascended on high; You have led captives away. You have received gifts from men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.

Psalms 7:12

If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.

Proverbs 1:24

Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,

Proverbs 1:25

because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,

Proverbs 1:26

in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,

Proverbs 1:27

when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

Proverbs 1:28

Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.

Proverbs 1:29

For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.

Proverbs 1:30

They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.

Proverbs 1:31

So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Proverbs 1:32

For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.

Proverbs 1:33

But whoever listens to me will dwell in safety, secure from the fear of evil.”

Ezekiel 18:27

But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.

Ezekiel 18:28

Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.

Ezekiel 18:29

Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Are My ways unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?

Ezekiel 18:30

Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so that your iniquity will not become your downfall.

Luke 13:5

No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”

Hebrews 2:1

We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.

Hebrews 2:2

For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every transgression and disobedience received its just punishment,

Hebrews 2:3

how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? This salvation was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard Him,

Hebrews 12:25

See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if the people did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject Him who warns us from heaven?

Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.

Revelation 2:15

In the same way, some of you also hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

Revelation 2:16

Therefore repent! Otherwise I will come to you shortly and wage war against them with the sword of My mouth.

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