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The Fool Says There Is No God

Psalms 14:5

In 11 translations

BSB
There they are, overwhelmed with dread, for God is in the company of the righteous.
KJV
There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.were…: Heb. they feared a fear
WEB
There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous.
ASV
There were they in great fear; For God is in the generation of the righteous.
LSV
They have feared a fear there, || For God [is] in the generation of the righteous.
YLT
There they have feared a fear, For God [is] in the generation of the righteous.
DBY
There were they in great fear; for God is in the generation of the righteous.Elohim
DRC13:5
They have not called upon the Lord: there have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear.
GNV
There they shall be taken with feare, because God is in the generation of the iust.
JPS
There are they in great fear; for God is with the righteous generation.
LXXE13:5
There were they alarmed with fear, where there was no fear; for God is in the righteous generation.

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Original-language editions

WLC
שָׁ֤ם ׀ פָּ֣חֲדוּ פָ֑חַד כִּֽי־אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים בְּד֣וֹר צַדִּֽיק׃
LXX-Br13:5
Ἐκεῖ ἐδειλίασαν φόβῳ, οὗ οὐκ ἦν φόβος, ὅτι ὁ Θεὸς ἐν γενεᾷ δικαίᾳ.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 112:2His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.
  • Psalms 73:15If I had said, “I will speak this way,” then I would have betrayed Your children.
  • Psalms 24:6Such is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek Your face, O God of Jacob. Selah
  • Isaiah 43:1–2Now this is what the LORD says— He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine! When you pass through the waters, I…
  • Psalms 46:5God is within her; she will not be moved. God will help her when morning dawns.
  • Proverbs 28:1The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
  • Psalms 46:7The LORD of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
  • Proverbs 1:26–27in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you, when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
  • Psalms 22:30Posterity will serve Him; they will declare the Lord to a new generation.
  • Isaiah 8:10Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”
  • Esther 8:7So King Xerxes said to Esther the Queen and Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews.
  • Psalms 46:11The LORD of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
  • Exodus 15:16and 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.
  • Psalms 53:5There they are, overwhelmed with dread, where there was nothing to fear. For God has scattered the bones of those who besieged you. You put them to shame, for God has despised them.
  • Matthew 1:23“Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”).
  • 1 Peter 2:9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

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