Thirsting for God
Psalms 63:10
In 11 translations
- BSB
- They will fall to the power of the sword; they will become a portion for foxes.
- KJV
- They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.They shall fall…: Heb. They shall make him run out like water by the hands of
- WEB
- They shall be given over to the power of the sword. They shall be jackal food.
- ASV
- They shall be given over to the power of the sword: They shall be a portion for foxes.
- LSV
- They cause him to run on the edge of the sword, || They are a portion for foxes.
- YLT
- They cause him to run on the edge of the sword, A portion for foxes they are.
- DBY
- They shall be given over to the power of the sword; they shall be the portion of foxes.
- DRC62:11
- They shall be delivered into the hands of the sword, they shall be the portions of foxes.
- GNV
- They shall cast him downe with the edge of the sword, and they shall be a portion for foxes.
- JPS63:11
- They shall be hurled to the power of the sword; they shall be a portion for foxes.
- LXXE62:11
- They shall be delivered up to the power of the sword; they shall be portions for foxes.
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Original-language editions
- WLC63:11
- יַגִּירֻ֥הוּ עַל־יְדֵי־חָ֑רֶב מְנָ֖ת שֻׁעָלִ֣ים יִהְיֽוּ׃KJV:Ps.63.10
- LXX-Br62:11
- παραδοθήσονται εἰς χεῖρας ῥομφαίας, μερίδες ἀλωπέκων ἔσονται.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Jeremiah 18:21Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword…
- Ezekiel 35:5Because you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster at the final stage of their punishment,
- Ezekiel 39:4On the mountains of Israel you will fall—you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to every kind of ravenous bird and wild beast.
- 1 Samuel 26:10David added, “As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.
- Ezekiel 39:17–20And as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Call out to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for…
- 1 Samuel 31:1–6Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa. The Philistines followed hard after Saul and his sons, and they killed Saul’s sons Jonathan,…
- Revelation 19:17–18Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice to all the birds flying overhead, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God, so that you may eat the flesh of kings and commanders and…
- Song of Songs 2:15Catch for us the foxes— the little foxes that ruin the vineyards— for our vineyards are in bloom.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 63:11 in some Bibles
- 63:10 in most Bibles