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Psalms 9:20

Psalms 9:20 is verse 20 of Psalms chapter 9, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Lay terror upon them, O LORD; let the nations know they are but men. Selah

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King James Version

Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

World English Bible

Put them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.

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Psalms 9:18–20 · Berean Standard Bible

18 For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.

19 Rise up, O LORD, do not let man prevail; let the nations be judged in Your presence.

20 Lay terror upon them, O LORD; let the nations know they are but men. Selah

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Cross-references

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

Psalms 76:12

He breaks the spirits of princes; He is feared by the kings of the earth.

Exodus 15:16

and terror and dread will fall on them. By the power of Your arm they will be as still as a stone until Your people pass by, O LORD, until the people You have bought pass by.

Exodus 23:27

I will send My terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn and run.

Deuteronomy 2:25

This very day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon all the nations under heaven. They will hear the reports of you and tremble in anguish because of you.”

Jeremiah 32:40

I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.

Ezekiel 30:13

This is what the Lord GOD says: I will destroy the idols and put an end to the images in Memphis. There will no longer be a prince in Egypt, and I will instill fear in that land.

Psalms 82:6

I have said, ‘You are gods; you are all sons of the Most High.’

Psalms 82:7

But like mortals you will die, and like rulers you will fall.”

Isaiah 31:3

But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.

Ezekiel 28:2

“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.

Ezekiel 28:9

Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you.

Acts 12:22

And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!”

Acts 12:23

Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

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