Psalms 89:23

New Living Translation

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

Parallel Translations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Contextual Overview

¹⁹ Long ago you spoke in a vision to your faithful people. You said, "I have raised up a warrior. I have selected him from the common people to be king. ²⁰ I have found my servant David. I have anointed him with my holy oil. ²¹ I will steady him with my hand; with my powerful arm I will make him strong. ²² His enemies will not defeat him, nor will the wicked overpower him. ²³ I will beat down his adversaries before him and destroy those who hate him. ²⁴ My faithfulness and unfailing love will be with him, and by my authority he will grow in power. ²⁵ I will extend his rule over the sea, his dominion over the rivers. ²⁶ And he will call out to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.' ²⁷ I will make him my firstborn son, the mightiest king on earth. ²⁸ I will love him and be kind to him forever; my covenant with him will never end.

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.