Psalms 89:23

English Revised Version

And I will beat down his adversaries before him, and smite them that hate him.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will crush his foes before himand strike those who hate him.

Hebrew Names Version
I will beat down his adversaries before him, And strike those who hate him.

King James Version
And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

English Standard Version
I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.

New Century Version
I will crush his enemies in front of him; I will defeat those who hate him.

New English Translation
I will crush his enemies before him; I will strike down those who hate him.

Amplified Bible
"I will crush his adversaries before him, And strike those who hate him.

New American Standard Bible
"But I will crush his adversaries before him, And strike those who hate him.

World English Bible
I will beat down his adversaries before him, And strike those who hate him.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But I will destroy his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

Legacy Standard Bible
But I shall crush his adversaries before him,And strike those who hate him.

Berean Standard Bible
I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.

Contemporary English Version
I will strike down and crush his troublesome enemies.

Complete Jewish Bible
No enemy will outwit him, no wicked man overcome him.

Darby Translation
But I will beat down his adversaries before his face, and will smite them that hate him.

Easy-to-Read Version
I will destroy his enemies before his eyes. I will defeat those who hate him.

George Lamsa Translation
And I will destroy his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

Good News Translation
I will crush his foes and kill everyone who hates him.

Lexham English Bible
But I will crush his adversaries before him, and I will strike those who hate him.

Literal Translation
And I will beat down his foes before him, and plague those hating him.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The enemie shal not ouercome him, and the sonne of wickednesse shal not hurte him.

American Standard Version
And I will beat down his adversaries before him, And smite them that hate him.

Bible in Basic English
I will have those who are against him broken before his face, and his haters will be crushed under my blows.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The enemy shall not exact from him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

King James Version (1611)
And I will beate downe his foes before his face: and plague them that hate him.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I wyll breake into peeces his foes before his face: and ouerthrowe them that hate hym.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I will hew down his foes before him, and put to flight those that hate him.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y schal sle hise enemyes fro his face; and Y schal turne in to fliyt hem that haten hym.

Update Bible Version
And I will beat down his adversaries before him, And smite those that hate him.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I will beat down his foes before his face, and afflict them that hate him.

New King James Version
I will beat down his foes before his face, And plague those who hate him.

New Living Translation
I will beat down his adversaries before him and destroy those who hate him.

New Life Bible
But he will see Me crush those who fight against him. I will kill those who hate him.

New Revised Standard
I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And I will shatter, from before him, his adversaries, And, them who hate him, will I smite;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(88-24) And I will cut down his enemies before his face; and them that hate him I will put to flight.

Revised Standard Version
I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.

Young's Literal Translation
And I have beaten down before him his adversaries, And those hating him I plague,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But I shall crush his adversaries before him, And strike those who hate him.

Contextual Overview

¹⁹ Then thou spakest in vision to thy saints, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. ²⁰ I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him: ²¹ With whom my hand shall be established; mine arm also shall strengthen him. ²² The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him. ²³ And I will beat down his adversaries before him, and smite them that hate him. ²⁴ But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him; and in my name shall his horn be exalted. ²⁵ I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers. ²⁶ He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. ²⁷ I also will make him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. ²⁸ My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will: 2 Samuel 3:1, 2 Samuel 7:1, 2 Samuel 7:9, 2 Samuel 22:40-44

plague: Psalms 2:1-6, Psalms 21:8, Psalms 21:9, Psalms 109:3-31, Psalms 110:1, Psalms 132:18, Luke 19:14, Luke 19:27, John 15:23

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:7 - shall cause 2 Samuel 7:10 - neither 1 Chronicles 17:10 - Moreover Psalms 2:9 - General Psalms 34:21 - they Psalms 91:4 - his truth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I will beat down his foes before his face,.... In Judea, and in the Gentile world; more especially in Rome Pagan, and Rome Papal; in the most public manner, before his Gospel, and the ministry of it by his servants; and they shall either submit unto it, or be broken to pieces as a potter's vessel; for he must reign till all enemies are put under his feet, 1 Corinthians 15:25,

and plague them that hate him; that would not have him to reign over them, the unbelieving Jews, and all the followers of antichrist; who are either plagued with the judgments of God here, or with everlasting punishment hereafter, with which they will be tormented for ever and ever, Luke 19:14 or "strike" d them with a rod of iron, with his wrath and vengeance; strike them down to the ground, and to the lowest hell.

d אגוף "percutiam", Pagninus, Montanus, Musculus, Piscator, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And I will beat down his foes before his face - I will crush them, or destroy them: showing that the power of doing this was not his own, but was the power of God exerted in his behalf.

And plague them that hate him - His enemies. I will bring “plagues” upon them: calamities, judgments, afflictions. The word is commonly used to denote those judgments which come directly from the hand of God - as famine, pestilence, wasting sickness, the plague, or the “plagues” of Egypt. Exodus 12:13; Exodus 30:12; Numbers 8:19; Numbers 17:11-12. These are all in the hand of God, and can be employed at his pleasure, as storms and tempests may be, in executing his purposes.