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Psalms Chapter 14 verse 5 Holy Bible

ASV Psalms 14:5

There were they in great fear; For God is in the generation of the righteous.
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BBE Psalms 14:5

Then were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the upright.
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DARBY Psalms 14:5

There were they in great fear; for God is in the generation of the righteous.
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KJV Psalms 14:5

There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
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WBT Psalms 14:5

There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
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WEB Psalms 14:5

There they were in great fear, For God is in the generation of the righteous.
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YLT Psalms 14:5

There they have feared a fear, For God `is' in the generation of the righteous.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - There were they in great fear. "There" - in the midst of their evil-doing, while they are devouring God's people - a sudden terror seizes on them. Psalm 53:5 adds, "Where no fear was," which seems to imply a panic terror, like that which seized the Syrians when they were besieging Samaria (2 Kings 7:6, 7). For God is in the generation of the righteous. God's people cannot be attacked without provoking him; they ere in him, and he in them; he will assuredly come to their relief.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) There were they.--Literally, there they feared a fear, i.e., terror overtook them. Psalms 53 adds, "which was no fear." The local "there" brings the scene before us as in a picture. We see them there before us, these wicked men; there in the midst of their intrigues, or their exactions, or their pleasures, the hand of God seizes them, and lo! they are struck with fear. We evidently have not here any indication by which to fasten on a particular event. Whether the addition in Psalms 53 gives any is discussed there.For God is.--For the singular variation in Psalms 53 consult Note on Psalm 14:5 of that psalm. The uneasy sense that, after all, the good have God on their side--this general truth is implied in the phrase "generations of the righteous," even if first employed of faithful Israel--is always a cause of fear to the wicked.