Psalm 110:6
New International Version
He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead and crushing the rulers of the whole earth.

New Living Translation
He will punish the nations and fill their lands with corpses; he will shatter heads over the whole earth.

English Standard Version
He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses; he will shatter chiefs over the wide earth.

Berean Standard Bible
He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead; He will crush the leaders far and wide.

King James Bible
He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.

New King James Version
He shall judge among the nations, He shall fill the places with dead bodies, He shall execute the heads of many countries.

New American Standard Bible
He will judge among the nations, He will fill them with corpses, He will shatter the chief men over a broad country.

NASB 1995
He will judge among the nations, He will fill them with corpses, He will shatter the chief men over a broad country.

NASB 1977
He will judge among the nations, He will fill them with corpses, He will shatter the chief men over a broad country.

Legacy Standard Bible
He will render justice among the nations, He will fill them with corpses, He will crush the head that is over the wide earth.

Amplified Bible
He will execute judgment [in overwhelming punishment] among the nations; He will fill them with corpses, He will crush the chief men over a broad country.

Christian Standard Bible
He will judge the nations, heaping up corpses; he will crush leaders over the entire world.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He will judge the nations, heaping up corpses; He will crush leaders over the entire world.

American Standard Version
He will judge among the nations, He will fill the places with dead bodies; He will strike through the head in many countries.

Contemporary English Version
He will judge the nations and crack their skulls, leaving piles of dead bodies all over the earth.

English Revised Version
He shall judge among the nations, he shall fill the places with dead bodies; he shall strike through the head in many countries.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He will pass judgment on the nations and fill them with dead bodies. Throughout the earth he will crush [their] heads.

Good News Translation
He will pass judgment on the nations and fill the battlefield with corpses; he will defeat kings all over the earth.

International Standard Version
He will execute judgment against the nations, filling graves with corpses. He will utterly destroy leaders far and wide.

Majority Standard Bible
He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead; He will crush the leaders far and wide.

NET Bible
He executes judgment against the nations; he fills the valleys with corpses; he shatters their heads over the vast battlefield.

New Heart English Bible
He will judge among the nations. He will heap up dead bodies. He will shatter the head throughout a vast territory.

Webster's Bible Translation
He will judge among the heathen, he will fill the places with the dead bodies; he will wound the heads over many countries.

World English Bible
He will judge among the nations. He will heap up dead bodies. He will crush the ruler of the whole earth.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
He judges among the nations, "" He has completed the carcasses, "" Has struck the head over the mighty earth.

Young's Literal Translation
He doth judge among the nations, He hath completed the carcases, Hath smitten the head over the mighty earth.

Smith's Literal Translation
He shall judge in the nations; he filled with dead bodies: he crushed the head over much land.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall judge among nations, he shall fill ruins: he shall crush the heads in the land of the many.

Catholic Public Domain Version
He will judge between the nations; he will fill up ruination. He will shatter heads in the land of the many.

New American Bible
Who judges nations, heaps up corpses, crushes heads across the wide earth,

New Revised Standard Version
He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses; he will shatter heads over the wide earth.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
He will judge among the nations, he will count the slain; he will cut off the heads of many on earth.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
He will judge the nations and he will give a full supply of corpses and will cut off the heads of many in the Earth.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
He will judge among the nations; He filleth it with the dead bodies, He crusheth the head over a wide land.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
He shall judge among the nations, he shall fill up the number of corpses, he shall crush the heads of many on the earth.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
God's Faithful Messiah
5The Lord is at Your right hand; He will crush kings in the day of His wrath. 6He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead; He will crush the leaders far and wide. 7He will drink from the brook by the road; therefore He will lift up His head.…

Cross References
Revelation 19:15
And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.

Isaiah 63:3-6
“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained. / For the day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redemption had come. / I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled that no one assisted. So My arm brought Me salvation, and My own wrath upheld Me. ...

Jeremiah 25:31-33
The tumult will resound to the ends of the earth because the LORD brings a charge against the nations. He brings judgment on all mankind and puts the wicked to the sword,’” declares the LORD. / This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold! Disaster is spreading from nation to nation; a mighty storm is rising from the ends of the earth.” / Those slain by the LORD on that day will be spread from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned, gathered, or buried. They will be like dung lying on the ground.

Revelation 14:19-20
So the angel swung his sickle over the earth and gathered the grapes of the earth, and he threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath. / And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and the blood that flowed from it rose as high as the bridles of the horses for a distance of 1,600 stadia.

Joel 3:12-14
Let the nations be roused and advance to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit down to judge all the nations on every side. / Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full; the wine vats overflow because their wickedness is great. / Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the Day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

Isaiah 34:2-3
The LORD is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter. / Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.

Ezekiel 39:17-21
And as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Call out to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great feast on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood. / You will eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls—all the fattened animals of Bashan. / At the sacrifice I am preparing, you will eat fat until you are gorged and drink blood until you are drunk. ...

Zephaniah 3:8
Therefore wait for Me,” declares the LORD, “until the day I rise to testify. For My decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them My indignation—all My burning anger. For all the earth will be consumed by the fire of My jealousy.

Habakkuk 3:12
You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.

Revelation 16:14-16
These are demonic spirits that perform signs and go out to all the kings of the earth, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty. / “Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who remains awake and clothed, so that he will not go naked and let his shame be exposed.” / And they assembled the kings in the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.

Isaiah 66:15-16
For behold, the LORD will come with fire—His chariots are like a whirlwind—to execute His anger with fury and His rebuke with flames of fire. / For by fire and by His sword, the LORD will execute judgment on all flesh, and many will be slain by the LORD.

Jeremiah 46:10
For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of Hosts, a day of vengeance against His foes. The sword will devour until it is satisfied, until it is quenched with their blood. For the Lord GOD of Hosts will hold a sacrifice in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.

Revelation 11:18
The nations were enraged, and Your wrath has come. The time has come to judge the dead and to reward Your servants the prophets, as well as the saints and those who fear Your name, both small and great—and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

Isaiah 11:4
but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.

2 Thessalonians 2:8
And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival.


Treasury of Scripture

He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.

judge

1 Samuel 2:10
The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.

Isaiah 2:4
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Isaiah 11:3
And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:

fill

Isaiah 34:2-8
For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter…

Isaiah 43:2-4
When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee…

Isaiah 66:16,17
For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many…

wound

Psalm 68:21
But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.

Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Habakkuk 3:13
Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.

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Psalm 110
1. The kingdom
4. The priesthood
5. The conquest
7. And the passion of Christ














He will judge
The phrase "He will judge" refers to the divine authority and sovereign power of God, specifically through the Messiah, to execute judgment. The Hebrew root for "judge" is "שָׁפַט" (shaphat), which means to govern, to vindicate, or to punish. This word is often used in the context of God's righteous judgment, emphasizing His role as the ultimate arbiter of justice. In the historical context of ancient Israel, judges were leaders who delivered the people from oppression and administered justice. This phrase assures believers of God's ultimate justice and the establishment of His righteous kingdom.

the nations
The term "the nations" is translated from the Hebrew word "גּוֹיִם" (goyim), which typically refers to the Gentiles or non-Israelite peoples. In the biblical context, this term often signifies those outside the covenant community of Israel. The inclusion of "the nations" in this verse underscores the universal scope of God's judgment and the Messiah's reign. It reflects the biblical theme that God's plan of salvation and judgment extends beyond Israel to all peoples, fulfilling the promise to Abraham that all nations would be blessed through his seed (Genesis 12:3).

heaping up the dead
This vivid imagery of "heaping up the dead" conveys the severity and totality of divine judgment. The Hebrew word "מָלֵא" (male) can mean to fill or to heap up, suggesting an overwhelming victory over the enemies of God. This phrase may evoke the aftermath of a decisive battle where the enemies of God are utterly defeated. It serves as a sobering reminder of the consequences of opposing God's will and the ultimate triumph of righteousness over wickedness.

He will crush
The phrase "He will crush" is derived from the Hebrew verb "מָחַץ" (machats), meaning to strike through, shatter, or crush. This term is often used in the context of military conquest and divine retribution. It signifies the Messiah's power to decisively defeat His enemies. The imagery of crushing conveys the idea of complete and irreversible destruction, highlighting the strength and authority of the Messiah as a warrior king who will establish peace through victory over evil.

the leaders
The word "leaders" is translated from the Hebrew "רֹאשׁ" (rosh), which can mean head, chief, or leader. In this context, it refers to the rulers or principal figures among the nations who oppose God's rule. The focus on leaders emphasizes the accountability of those in positions of power and the futility of their resistance against God's sovereign plan. It serves as a warning to earthly powers that their authority is subordinate to the divine authority of the Messiah.

far and wide
The phrase "far and wide" suggests the extensive reach of the Messiah's judgment. The Hebrew expression "אֶרֶץ רַבָּה" (eretz rabbah) can be understood as covering a great expanse or throughout the earth. This indicates that no place is beyond the scope of God's judgment and that His justice will be executed universally. It reassures believers of the comprehensive nature of God's reign and the ultimate establishment of His kingdom across the entire world.

(6) He shall judge.--Comp. Psalm 9:8, &c.

He shall fill.--The construction is peculiar, and in the Hebrew for heathen and corpses there is a play on words. A slight change in the vowel pointing gives a better construction than is obtained by understanding any word as the Authorised Version does, and critics generally: He judges among the heathen fulness of corpses. At first the poet meant to write, "He judges among the heathen fulness of judgment" (comp. Job 36:17), but, for the sake of the play on the sound, changed his words to "fulness of corpses."

He shall wound the heads.--Literally, crushes a head over a vast land, where "head" means, as in Judges 7:16; Judges 7:20, a band or host of men. The picture is of a vast battle-field with heaps of slain. Others understand, "the chief or master of a wide land." (Comp. Habakkuk 3:14, "head of his villages.") . . .

Verse 6. - He shall judge among the heathen; i.e. execute the royal office not only over Israel, but over the nations of the earth generally (comp. Psalm 7:9; Psalm 9:9; Psalm 96:10, etc.). He shall fill the places with the dead bodies; rather, he shall fill the earth with dead bodies; i.e. with the corpses of those whom he has slain while executing judgment. He shall wound the heads over many countries. Thus translated, the clause merely repeats ver. 5. Perhaps a better rendering is that of Dr. Kay, "He shall smite him that is head over the wide earth" - either Satan or "the central power of the whole confederacy of evil."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He will judge
יָדִ֣ין (yā·ḏîn)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1777: A straight course, sail direct

the nations,
בַּ֭גּוֹיִם (bag·gō·w·yim)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts

heaping up
מָלֵ֣א (mā·lê)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4390: To fill, be full of

the dead;
גְוִיּ֑וֹת (ḡə·wî·yō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 1472: A body, corpse

He will crush
מָ֥חַץ (mā·ḥaṣ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4272: To dash asunder, to crush, smash, violently plunge, to subdue, destroy

the leaders
רֹ֝֗אשׁ (rōš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7218: The head

far
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

and wide.
רַבָּֽה׃ (rab·bāh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 7227: Much, many, great


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