Psalm 53:5
There they are, overwhelmed with dread, where there was nothing to fear. For God has scattered the bones of those who besieged you. You put them to shame, for God has despised them.
There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.
Note were…: Heb. they feared a fear
There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.
There were they in great fear, where no fear was; For God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: Thou hast put them to shame, because God hath rejected them.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- There
- Leviticus 26:17, 36; Deuteronomy 28:65–67; 1 Samuel 14:15; 2 Kings 7:6, 7; Job 15:21; Proverbs 28:1
- were they in great fear
- Heb. they feared a fear.
- Psalm 14:5
- scattered
- Psalm 141:7; Ezekiel 6:5; Ezekiel 37:1–11
- thou hast
- Psalm 35:4, 26; Psalm 40:14; Psalm 83:16, 17
- because
- Psalm 2:4; Psalm 73:20; Isaiah 37:22–38; Jeremiah 6:30; Lamentations 2:6