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God Judges the Earth

Psalms 58:6

In 11 translations

BSB
O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.
KJV
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
WEB
Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.
ASV
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
LSV
O God, break their teeth in their mouth, || Break down the jaw-teeth of young lions, O YHWH.
YLT
O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.
DBY
O God, break their teeth in their mouth; break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.Elohim
DRC57:7
God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.
GNV
Breake their teeth, O God, in their mouthes: breake the iawes of the yong lions, O Lord.
JPS58:7
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth; break out the cheek-teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
LXXE57:7
God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.

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Original-language editions

WLC58:7
אֱֽלֹהִ֗ים הֲרָס־שִׁנֵּ֥ימוֹ בְּפִ֑ימוֹ מַלְתְּע֥וֹת כְּ֝פִירִ֗ים נְתֹ֣ץ ׀ יְהוָֽה׃KJV:Ps.58.6
LXX-Br57:7
Ὁ Θεὸς συνέτριψε τοὺς ὀδόντας αὐτῶν ἐν τῷ στόματι αὐτῶν, τὰς μύλας τῶν λεόντων συνέθλασεν ὁ Κύριος.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 3:7Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.
  • Hosea 5:14For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear them to pieces and then go away. I will carry them off where no one can rescue them.
  • Job 4:10–11The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken. The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
  • Micah 5:8Then the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it passes through,…
  • Psalms 10:15Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.
  • Psalms 17:12like a lion greedy for prey, like a young lion lurking in ambush.
  • Job 29:17I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
  • Isaiah 31:4For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey— and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor—…
  • Numbers 23:24Behold, the people rise like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion, not resting until they devour their prey and drink the blood of the slain.”
  • Psalms 91:13You will tread on the lion and cobra; you will trample the young lion and serpent.
  • Ezekiel 30:21–26“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. See, it has not been bound up for healing, or splinted for strength to hold the sword. Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against Pharaoh…

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 58:7 in some Bibles
  • 58:6 in most Bibles

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