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Psalms 68:21

God will smash the heads of his enemies. He will punish those who fight against him.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Impenitence;   Wicked (People);   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Hair, the;   Head;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Head;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms;   Samson;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Head;   Scalp;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Crown;   Head;   Pate;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Death, Views and Customs Concerning;   Didache;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
But God will smash the heads of his enemies, crushing the skulls of those who love their guilty ways.
English Revised Version
But God shall smite through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his guiltiness.
Update Bible Version
But God will smite through the head of his enemies, The hairy scalp of such a one as goes on still in his guiltiness.
New Century Version
God will crush his enemies' heads, the hairy skulls of those who continue to sin.
New English Translation
Indeed God strikes the heads of his enemies, the hairy foreheads of those who persist in rebellion.
Webster's Bible Translation
But God will wound the head of his enemies, [and] the hairy scalp of such one as goeth on still in his trespasses.
World English Bible
But God will strike through the head of his enemies, The hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.
Amplified Bible
Surely God will shatter the head of His enemies, The hairy scalp of one who goes on in his guilty ways.
English Standard Version
But God will strike the heads of his enemies, the hairy crown of him who walks in his guilty ways.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Netheles God schal breke the heedis of hise enemyes; the cop of the heere of hem that goen in her trespassis.
Berean Standard Bible
Surely God will crush the heads of His enemies, the hairy crowns of those who persist in guilty ways.
Contemporary English Version
Our Lord and our God, your terrible enemies are ready for war, but you will crush their skulls.
American Standard Version
But God will smite through the head of his enemies, The hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his guiltiness.
Bible in Basic English
The heads of the haters of God will be crushed; even the head of him who still goes on in his evil ways.
Complete Jewish Bible
Our God is a God who saves; from Adonai Adonai comes escape from death.
Darby Translation
Verily God will smite the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of him that goeth on still in his trespasses.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
God is unto us a God of deliverances; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues of death.
King James Version (1611)
But God shall wound the head of his enemies: and the hairy scalpe of such a one as goeth on still in his trespasses.
New Life Bible
But God will break the head of those who hate Him, the hair-covered head of him who goes on in his sins.
New Revised Standard
But God will shatter the heads of his enemies, the hairy crown of those who walk in their guilty ways.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Surely God will wound the head of his enemies, and the hearie pate of him that walketh in his sinnes.
George Lamsa Translation
But God shall sever the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of the head of those who persist in their sins.
Good News Translation
God will surely break the heads of his enemies, of those who persist in their sinful ways.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yea, God himself, will smite through the head of his foes, - The hairy crown of him that is marching on in his guilty deeds.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(67-22) But God shall break the heads of his enemies: the hairy crown of them that walk on in their sins.
Revised Standard Version
But God will shatter the heads of his enemies, the hairy crown of him who walks in his guilty ways.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
God wyll wounde the head of his enemies: and the heary scalpe of hym who goeth on styll in his wickednesse.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But God shall crust the heads of his enemies; the hairy crown of them that go on in their trespasses.
Christian Standard Bible®
Surely God crushes the heads of his enemies,the hairy brow of one who goes on in his guilty acts.
Hebrew Names Version
But God will strike through the head of his enemies, The hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.
King James Version
But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.
Lexham English Bible
But God will shatter the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of the one who continues on in his guilt.
Literal Translation
Yea, God will crush the head of His enemies, the hairy crown of him who walks on in his guilt.
Young's Literal Translation
Only -- God doth smite The head of His enemies, The hairy crown of a habitual walker in his guilt.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The God that smyteth his enemies vpo the heades & vpon the hayrie scalpes: soch as go on still in their wikednes.
New American Standard Bible
God certainly will shatter the heads of His enemies, The hairy head of one who goes about in his guilt.
New King James Version
But God will wound the head of His enemies, The hairy scalp of the one who still goes on in his trespasses.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Surely God will shatter the head of His enemies, The hairy crown of him who goes on in his guilty deeds.
Legacy Standard Bible
Surely God will crush the head of His enemies,The hairy skull of him who goes on in his guilty deeds.

Contextual Overview

15 Mount Bashan is a great mountain with many high peaks. 16 But, Bashan, why are you jealous of Mount Zion? That is where God has chosen to live. The Lord will live there forever. 17 With his millions of chariots, the Lord came from Sinai into the holy place. 18 You went up to your high place, leading a parade of captives. You received gifts from people, even those who turned against you. The Lord God went up there to live. 19 Praise the Lord! Every day he helps us with the loads we must carry. He is the God who saves us. Selah 20 He is our God, the God who saves us. My Lord God saves us from death. 21 God will smash the heads of his enemies. He will punish those who fight against him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

God: Psalms 110:6, Habakkuk 3:13, Mark 12:4

the hairy: Psalms 55:23

of such: Psalms 68:18, Psalms 7:12, Proverbs 1:24-33, Ezekiel 18:27-30, Luke 13:5, Hebrews 2:1-3, Hebrews 12:25, Revelation 2:14-16

Reciprocal: Exodus 9:2 - General Amos 9:1 - cut them

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But God shall wound the head of his enemies,.... Him who is the chief of his enemies, even Satan the prince of devils, the god of the world, the father of the wicked Jews, all enemies of Christ; to "wound" is the same as to bruise him, as in Genesis 3:15; and so the Targum here,

"but God shall break the head of his enemies;''

disappoint his schemes, blast his designs, crush his power and authority, demolish his empire, and eternally destroy him with the fire prepared for him and his angels; and the same may be applied to the man of sin, and all other enemies of Christ, who is the divine Person here, and all along, spoken of; see Psalms 110:6;

[and] the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses; by whom may be meant antichrist: Jarchi interprets it of Esau, who was an hairy man, and a figure of antichrist: and his hairy scalp may denote his fierceness and cruelty, appearing like a savage beast, drinking the blood of the saints; and like a thief and a robber, who used to let their hair grow long, shagged, and entangled, to strike terror into men they met with, Job 5:5; and also his pride and haughtiness; he exalting himself above all that is called God, and opening his mouth in blasphemy against him: and likewise it signifies his great power and authority, he having people, kingdoms, and nations, depending upon him, as hair on the head, and subject to him: and of him it may be truly said, that he "goes on still in his trespasses"; in tyranny, idolatry, superstition, and will worship; taking no notice of what God says by his witnesses, nor any warning by what the eastern empire suffered by the Turks and Saracens; so as to repent of the works of his hands, of worshipping idols of gold, silver, brass, and wood; nor of his murders, sorceries, fornications, and thefts; but still persisting in them, until his, and the sins of his followers, reach to heaven, Revelation 9:20; but the God-man, Christ Jesus, will give him a deadly wound, of which he shall never be healed: this also holds true of all that persist in a sinful course of life without repentance; who are workers of iniquity, whose lives are one continued series of sinning; these will be punished by Christ with everlasting destruction.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But God shall wound the head of his enemies - More properly, “God shall crush the head,” etc. The idea is that of complete destruction, - as, if the head is crushed, life becomes ex tinct. See Genesis 3:15; compare Psalms 110:6.

And the hairy scalp - More literally, “the top of the hair.” The Hebrew word used here for “scalp” means the vertex, the top, the crown, as of the head, where the hair “divides itself;” and the idea is properly, “the dividing of the hair.” Gesenius, Lexicon. The allusion is to the top of the head; that is, the blow would descend on the top of the head, producing death.

Of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses - Of the man who perseveres in a course of wickedness. If he repents, God will be merciful to him; if he persists in sin, he will be punished. The literal rendering would be, “the hairy scalp going on, or going, sc. “about”, in his trespasses.” The reference is to a wicked man “continuing” in his transgressions.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 68:21. The hairy scalp — קדקד שער kodkod sear. Does this mean any thing like the Indian scalping? Or does it refer to a crest on a helmet or headcap? I suppose the latter.


 
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