Psalms 68:23

Easy-to-Read Version

So you will march through pools of their blood, and there will be plenty left for your dogs."

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
You, my people, will wash your feet in their blood, and even your dogs will get their share!"

English Revised Version
That thou mayest dip thy foot in blood, that the tongue of thy dogs may have its portion from thine enemies.

Update Bible Version
That you may crush [them], [dipping] your foot in blood, That the tongue of your dogs may have its portion from [your] enemies.

New Century Version
Then you can stick your feet in their blood, and your dogs can lick their share."

New English Translation
so that your feet may stomp in their blood, and your dogs may eat their portion of the enemies' corpses."

Webster's Bible Translation
That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thy enemies, [and] the tongue of thy dogs in the same.

World English Bible
That you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, That the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies."

Amplified Bible
That your foot may crush them in blood, That the tongue of your dogs may have its share from your enemies."

English Standard Version
that you may strike your feet in their blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
That thi foot be deppid in blood; the tunge of thi doggis be dippid in blood of the enemyes of hym.

Berean Standard Bible
that your foot may be dipped in the blood of your foes, the tongues of your dogs in the same."

Contemporary English Version
Then we could stomp on their blood, and our dogs could chew on their bones.

American Standard Version
That thou mayest crush them, dipping thy foot in blood, That the tongue of thy dogs may have its portion from thine enemies.

Bible in Basic English
So that your foot may be red with blood, and the tongues of your dogs with the same.

Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai said, "I will bring them back from Bashan, I will fetch [those rebels] even from the depths of the sea;

Darby Translation
That thou mayest dip thy foot in blood: the tongue of thy dogs has its portion from enemies.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The Lord said: 'I will bring back from Bashan, I will bring them back from the depths of the sea;

King James Version (1611)
That thy foote may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogges in the same.

New Life Bible
So your feet may crush them in blood. And the tongue of your dogs may have a share of those who hate you."

New Revised Standard
so that you may bathe your feet in blood, so that the tongues of your dogs may have their share from the foe."

Geneva Bible (1587)
That thy foote may bee dipped in blood, and the tongue of thy dogges in the blood of the enemies, euen in it.

George Lamsa Translation
That thy foot shall be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.

Good News Translation
so that you may wade in their blood, and your dogs may lap up as much as they want."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
That thou mayest bathe thy foot in blood, - The tongue of thy dogs, from the foes, hath its portion.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(67-24) That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thy enemies; the tongue of thy dogs be red with the same.

Revised Standard Version
that you may bathe your feet in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe."

Bishop's Bible (1568)
That thy footes [and] the tongue of thy dogges: may be made redde in the blood of the enemies by his meanes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
That thy foot may be dipped in blood, and the tongue of thy dogs be stained with that of thine enemies.

Christian Standard Bible®
so that your foot may wade in bloodand your dogs’ tongues may have their sharefrom the enemies.”

Hebrew Names Version
That you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, That the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies."

King James Version
That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.

Lexham English Bible
so that your foot may shatter them bloody for the tongues of your dogs to have their share from the enemies."

Literal Translation
so that your foot may be dashed in the blood of your enemies, the tongue of your dogs in it.

Young's Literal Translation
So that thou dashest thy foot in blood, [In the blood of] enemies -- the tongue of Thy dogs.'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
That thy fote maye be dipped in the bloude of thine enemies, & that thy dogges maye licke it vp.

New American Standard Bible
So that your foot may shatter them in blood, And the tongue of your dogs may have its portion from your enemies."

New King James Version
That your foot may crush them [fn] in blood,And the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
That your foot may shatter them in blood, The tongue of your dogs may have its portion from your enemies."

Legacy Standard Bible
That your foot may crush them in blood,The tongue of your dogs may have its portion from your enemies."

Contextual Overview

²² My Lord said, "If they run up to Bashan or down to the depths of the sea, I will bring them back. ²³ So you will march through pools of their blood, and there will be plenty left for your dogs." ²⁴ God, everyone can see your victory parade— the victory march of my God and King into his holy place! ²⁵ Singers come marching in front, followed by the musicians; they are surrounded by young girls playing tambourines. ²⁶ Praise God in the meeting place. Praise the Lord , people of Israel! ²⁷ There is the smallest tribe, Benjamin, leading them. And there comes a large group of leaders from Judah. Following them are the leaders of Zebulun and Naphtali. ²⁸ God, show us your power! Show us the power you used for us in the past. ²⁹ Kings will bring their wealth to you, to your Temple in Jerusalem. ³⁰ Punish the people in Egypt. They are like cattle in the marshes, like bulls among the calves. You humiliated them. You scattered them in war. Now let them come crawling to you, bringing their pieces of silver. ³¹ Messengers from Egypt will come bearing gifts. Ethiopia will offer God their tribute.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

That: Psalms 58:10

dipped: Heb. red, Isaiah 63:1-6

the tongue: 1 Kings 21:19, 1 Kings 22:38, 2 Kings 9:33-37, Revelation 19:17-21

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:42 - make mine Esther 8:13 - avenge themselves

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of [thine] enemies,.... This verse is in connection with Psalms 68:21, with Psalms 68:23 being to be read in a parenthesis: the sense is, that the Messiah would so wound the head and hairy scalp of his people's enemies, and there should be such a large effusion of blood, that their feet should be dipped therein, Revelation 14:20;

Revelation 14:20- :;

[and] the tongue of thy dogs in the same; who should lick it up, as the dogs licked the blood of Jezebel, 1 Kings 21:19; and so such a carnage will be made of antichrist and his followers, that the fowls of the heavens will be called upon to eat the flesh of kings, captains, and mighty ones, Revelation 19:17.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies ... - Margin, “red.” A more literal rendering would be, “That thou mayest crush - thy foot in blood - the tongue of thy dogs from the enemies, from him.” The idea of “dipping” the foot in blood is not in the passage directly; but the leading thought is that of “crushing” the enemy. It is then “added” that the foot would be in blood. So of the tongue of the dogs. The “meaning” is, that the tongues of dogs would be employed in licking up the blood of the enemies, though that is not “expressed” in so many words. The sense of the whole is, that the foes of the people would be slain.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 68:23. That thy foot may be dipped in the blood — God will make such a slaughter among his enemies, the Amorites, that thou shalt walk over their dead bodies; and beasts of prey shall feed upon them.