Psalm 68:22 {67:23}
Good News Translation
The Lord has said, "I will bring your enemies back from Bashan; I will bring them back from the depths of the ocean,

New Revised Standard Version
The Lord said, “I will bring them back from Bashan, I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,

Contemporary English Version
You promised to bring them from Bashan and from the deepest sea.

New American Bible
The Lord has said: “Even from Bashan I will fetch them, fetch them even from the depths of the sea.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord said: I will turn them from Basan, I will turn them into the depth of the sea:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The Lord said: I will turn them from Basan, I will turn them into the depth of the sea:

Bashan

Numbers 21:33 And they turned themselves, and went up by the way of Basan, and Og the king of Basan came against them with all his people, to fight in Edrai.

Isaiah 11:11-16 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand the second time to possess the remnant of his people, which shall be left from the Assyrians, and from Egypt, and from Phetros, and from Ethiopia, and from Elam, and from Sennaar, and from Emath, and from the islands of the sea. . . .

Isaiah 49:22 Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles, and will set up my standard to the people. And they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and carry thy daughters upon their shoulders.

the depths

Exodus 14:22,29 And the children of Israel went in through the midst of the sea dried up; for the water was as a wall on their right hand and on their left. . . .

Isaiah 51:10,11 Hast not thou dried up the sea, the water of the mighty deep, who madest the depth of the sea a way, that the delivered might pass over? . . .

Jeremiah 23:5-8 Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will raise up to David a just branch: and a king shall reign, and shall be wise: and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. . . .

Ezekiel 36:24 For I will take you from among the Gentiles, and will gather you together out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.

Hosea 1:10,11 And the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, that is without measure, and shall not be numbered. And it shall be in the place where it shall be said to them: You are not my people: it shall be said to them: Ye are the sons of the living God. . . .

Context
God's Enemies Are Scattered
21But God shall break the heads of his enemies: the hairy crown of them that walk on in their sins. 22The Lord said: I will turn them from Basan, I will turn them into the depth of the sea:23That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thy enemies; the tongue of thy dogs be red with the same.…
Cross References
Numbers 21:33
And they turned themselves, and went up by the way of Basan, and Og the king of Basan came against them with all his people, to fight in Edrai.

Amos 9:1
They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say: Thy God, O Dan, liveth: and the way of Bersabee liveth: and they shall fall, and shall rise no more.

Psalm 68:21
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