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Psalms 63:10

They shall be given over to the power of the sword. They shall be jackal food.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    They shall be given over to the power of the sword. They shall be jackal food.

  • KJV King James Version

    They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    (63-11) They shall be hurled to the power of the sword; they shall be a portion for foxes.

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Cross-references (8)

Passages linked to Psalms 63:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Jeremiah 18:21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widows. Let their men be killed and their young men struck by the sword in battle.
  • Ezekiel 35:5 “ ‘ “Because you have had a perpetual hostility, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;
  • Ezekiel 39:4 You will fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your hordes, and the peoples who are with you. I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the animals of the field to be devoured.
  • 1 Samuel 26:10 David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.
  • 1 Samuel 31:1-6 Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa. The Philistines overtook Saul and on his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul. The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers. Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me!” But his armor bearer would not; for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it. When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died with him. So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor bearer, and all his men, that same day together.
  • Song of Solomon 2:15 Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that plunder the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom.
  • Ezekiel 39:17-20 “You, son of man, the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, “Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat meat and drink blood. You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan. You shall eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. You shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war,” says the Lord Yahweh.’
  • Revelation 19:17-18 I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the sky, “Come! Be gathered together to the great supper of God, that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, small and great.”

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Explain this verse (14 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain He prophecieth of the destruction of Saul and them…

He prophecieth of the destruction of Saul and them that take his part, whose bodies shall not be buried, but be devoured with wild beasts.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 63:10 They shall fall by the sword: they…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain They shall fall by the sword, i.e. die in…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain They shall fall by the sword,.... As Saul, his…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Foxes - Their carcases shall become a prey to…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 10. They shall fall by the sword] They…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain They shall fall by the sword - Margin, They…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain foxes--literally, "jackals."
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 10. Sword… foxes—Denoting that they should die violent deaths,…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 10. They shall fall &c.] Lit., They shall give…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (10) Shall fall.—See margin. But more literally, they shall…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain They shall fall by the sword; i.e. in battle…
Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 10. They shall fall by the sword. So…
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 63:10 Wild jackals are associated with desolation and abandonment…

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