Lectionary Calendar
Tuesday, February 25th, 2025
the Seventh Week after Epiphany
There are 54 days til Easter!
Attention!
For 10¢ a day you can enjoy StudyLight.org ads
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!

Read the Bible

King James Version

Psalms 81:14

I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Blessing;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Adversary;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Asaph;   Music and Musical Instruments;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Zeal;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Gittith;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I would soone haue humbled their enemies, and turned mine hand against their aduersaries.
Christian Standard Bible®
I would quickly subdue their enemiesand turn my hand against their foes.”
Hebrew Names Version
I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn my hand against their adversaries.
Easy-to-Read Version
then I would defeat their enemies. I would punish those who cause them trouble.
Amplified Bible
"Then I would quickly subdue and humble their enemies And turn My hand against their adversaries;
American Standard Version
I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn my hand against their adversaries.
Contemporary English Version
I, the Lord , would quickly defeat your enemies with my mighty power.
Complete Jewish Bible
How I wish my people would listen to me, that Isra'el would live by my ways!
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Oh that My people would hearken unto Me, that Israel would walk in My ways!
King James Version (1611)
I should soone haue subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their aduersaries.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I should have put down their enemies very quickly, and should have laid my hand upon those that afflicted them.
English Revised Version
I should soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
Berean Standard Bible
how soon I would subdue their enemies and turn My hand against their foes!
Lexham English Bible
I would subdue their enemies quickly, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
Literal Translation
I would have subdued their enemies in a little while ; and I would have turned My hand against their foes.
New Century Version
Then I would quickly defeat their enemies and turn my hand against their foes.
New English Translation
Then I would quickly subdue their enemies, and attack their adversaries."
New King James Version
I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn My hand against their adversaries.
New Living Translation
How quickly I would then subdue their enemies! How soon my hands would be upon their foes!
New Life Bible
I would hurry to crush those who fight against them. I would turn My hand against those who hate them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Right soon, their foes, would I subdue, And, against their adversaries, would I turn my hand:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(80-15) I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on them that troubled them.
George Lamsa Translation
I would soon have destroyed their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
Good News Translation
I would quickly defeat their enemies and conquer all their foes.
New American Standard Bible
"I would quickly subdue their enemies And turn My hand against their adversaries.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I should soone haue tamed their enemies: and turned myne hande against their aduersaries.
New Revised Standard
Then I would quickly subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their foes.
Darby Translation
I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For nouyt in hap Y hadde maad low her enemyes; and Y hadde send myn hond on men doynge tribulacioun to hem.
Young's Literal Translation
As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand,
World English Bible
I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn my hand against their adversaries.
Revised Standard Version
I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their foes.
Update Bible Version
I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn my hand against their adversaries.
Webster's Bible Translation
I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
Bible in Basic English
I would quickly overcome their haters: my hand would be turned against those who make war on them.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Oy my people wolde obeye me, for yf Israel wolde walke in my wayes.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I would quickly subdue their enemies And turn My hand against their adversaries.
Legacy Standard Bible
I would quickly subdue their enemiesAnd I would turn My hand against their adversaries.

Contextual Overview

8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; 9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. 10 I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. 11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. 12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels. 13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! 14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. 15 The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. 16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I should: Numbers 14:9, Numbers 14:45, Joshua 23:13, Judges 2:20-23

turned: Amos 1:8, Zechariah 13:7

Reciprocal: Exodus 16:28 - General Leviticus 26:8 - General Judges 4:23 - General Psalms 47:3 - subdue Jeremiah 2:3 - all that

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I should soon have subdued their enemies,.... The Canaanites, and others: this he would have done in a very little time, or at once, and that easily, and without any trouble; he would quickly have humbled them, and brought them on their knees, as the word g signifies, to terms of peace; for when a man's ways please the Lord, he makes his enemies to be at peace with him, Proverbs 16:7 so those that hearken to the voice of Christ, and walk in his ways, he subdues their iniquities, and will bruise Satan under their feet shortly, and make them more than conquerors: through himself, over the world; the men and things of it he has overcome:

and turned my hand against their adversaries; that troubled, distressed, and oppressed them; and it is a righteous thing with God to render tribulation to them that trouble his people; he turns his chastising hand off of them, which sometimes is heavy upon them, and presses them sore, and turns it in a way of wrath and vindictive justice against their adversaries; and so the Targum,

"and turned the stroke of my power against their adversaries;''

this is the lighting down of his arm with the indignation of his anger, which is intolerable, Isaiah 30:30.

g אכניע "flecterem", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I should soon have subdued their enemies - This is one of the consequences which, it is said, would have followed if they had been obedient to the laws of God. The phrase rendered soon means literally like a little; that is, as we might say, in a little, to wit, in a little time. The word rendered subdued means to bow down; to be curved or bent; and the idea is, that he would have caused them to bow down, to wit, by submission before them. Compare Deuteronomy 32:29-30.

And turned my hand against their adversaries - Against those who oppressed and wronged them. The act of turning the hand against one is significant of putting him away - repelling him - disowning him - as when we would thrust one away from us with aversion.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 81:14. I should soon have subdued — If God's promise appeared to fail in behalf of his people, it was because they rejected his counsel, and walked in their own. While they were faithful, they prospered; and not one jot or tittle of God's word failed to them.


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile