Psalms 89:10

What does Psalms 89:10 mean?

A plain-English look at Psalms 89:10 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; Thou hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; Thou hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Rahab was crushed by you like one wounded to death; with your strong arm you put to flight all your haters.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Thou hast bruised Rahab, as one wounded. With the arm of Thy strength Thou hast scattered Thine enemies.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

The days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be corrected.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Thou hast crushed Rahab as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength.

Context

v.9Thou rulest the pride of the sea: When the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.

v.10This passage

v.11The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: The world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 68:1

    Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered; Let them also that hate him flee before him.

  • Psalms 68:30

    Rebuke the wild beast of the reeds, The multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples, Trampling under foot the pieces of silver: He hath scattered the peoples that delight in war.

  • Isaiah 24:1

    Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

  • Exodus 3:19

    And I know that the king of Egypt will not give you leave to go, no, not by a mighty hand.

  • Psalms 59:11

    Slay them not, lest my people forget: Scatter them by thy power, and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

  • Deuteronomy 4:34

    Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Jehovah your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

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