Psalms Chapter 9 verse 20 Holy Bible

ASV Psalms 9:20

Put them in fear, O Jehovah: Let the nations know themselves to be but men. Selah
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BBE Psalms 9:20

Put them in fear, O Lord, so that the nations may see that they are only men. (Selah.)
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DARBY Psalms 9:20

Put them in fear, Jehovah: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
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KJV Psalms 9:20

Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
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WBT Psalms 9:20

Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
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WEB Psalms 9:20

Put them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.
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YLT Psalms 9:20

Appoint, O Jehovah, a director to them, Let nations know they `are' men! Selah.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - Put them in fear, O Lord; literally, set fear to them; i.e. "make them afraid," either by striking a panic terror into them, as into the Syrians when they had brought Samaria to the last gasp (2 Kings 7:6, 7), or by causing them calmly to review the situation, and to see how dangerous it was to assail God's people (2 Kings 6:23). That the nations may know themselves to be but men. May recognize, i.e., their weakness; may remember that they are enosh - mere weak, frail, sickly, perishing mortals. Selah. Here this word occurs for the second time at the end of a psalm (see above, Psalm 3:8) - a position which militates against the idea of its signifying "a pause," since there must always have been a pause at the end of every psalm.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) Put them in fear.--There is a difficulty about the reading. The LXX., Vulg., and Syriac read "place a lawgiver or master over them." So Syriac, "law." Hitzig conjectures, "set a guard upon them." With the present reading apparently the rendering should be, put a terror upon them: i.e., "give such a proof of power as to trouble and subdue them."