Psalm 68:22
New International Version
The Lord says, “I will bring them from Bashan; I will bring them from the depths of the sea,

New Living Translation
The Lord says, “I will bring my enemies down from Bashan; I will bring them up from the depths of the sea.

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

Berean Standard Bible
The Lord said, “I will retrieve them from Bashan, I will bring them up from the depths of the sea,

King James Bible
The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:

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

New American Standard Bible
The Lord said, “I will bring them back from Bashan. I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,

NASB 1995
The Lord said, “I will bring them back from Bashan. I will bring them back from the depths of the sea;

NASB 1977
The Lord said, “I will bring them back from Bashan. I will bring them back from the depths of the sea;

Legacy Standard Bible
The Lord said, “I will bring them back from Bashan. I will bring them back from the depths of the sea;

Amplified Bible
The Lord said, “I will bring your enemies back from Bashan; I will bring them back from the depths of the [Red] Sea,

Christian Standard Bible
The Lord said, “I will bring them back from Bashan; I will bring them back from the depths of the sea

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The Lord said, “I will bring them back from Bashan; I will bring them back from the depths of the sea

American Standard Version
The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring them again from the depths of the sea;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
LORD JEHOVAH said, "From among the peaks I shall bring forth and I shall lead from the depths of the sea.”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The Lord said, I will bring again from Basan, I will bring my people again through the depths of the sea.

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

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

English Revised Version
The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring them again from the depths of the sea:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The Lord said, "I will bring them back from Bashan. I will bring them back from the depths of the sea

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,

International Standard Version
The Lord says, "From Bashan I will bring them, I will bring them from the depths of the sea,

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

Literal Standard Version
The Lord said: “From Bashan I bring back, | I bring back from the depths of the sea.

Majority Standard Bible
The Lord said, “I will retrieve them from Bashan, I will bring them up from the depths of the sea,

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

NET Bible
The Lord says, "I will retrieve them from Bashan, I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,

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,

New Heart English Bible
The Lord said, "I will bring you again from Bashan, I will bring you again from the depths of the sea;

Webster's Bible Translation
The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea.

World English Bible
The Lord said, “I will bring you again from Bashan, I will bring you again from the depths of the sea,

Young's Literal Translation
The Lord said: 'From Bashan I bring back, I bring back from the depths of the sea.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
God's Enemies Are Scattered
21Surely God will crush the heads of His enemies, the hairy crowns of those who persist in guilty ways. 22The Lord said, “I will retrieve them from Bashan, I will bring them up from the depths of the sea, 23that your foot may be dipped in the blood of your foes—the tongues of your dogs in the same.”…

Cross References
Numbers 21:33
Then they turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet them in battle at Edrei.

Amos 9:1
I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: "Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.


Treasury of Scripture

The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:

Bashan

Numbers 21:33
And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei.

Isaiah 11:11-16
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea…

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

the depths

Exodus 14:22,29
And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left…

Isaiah 51:10,11
Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over? …

Jeremiah 23:5-8
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth…

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(22) I will bring.--The meaning of this verse is very obscure. It is plainly another fragment of some ancient song quoted, we can hardly doubt, with reference to the return from captivity. "Bashan" and the "depths of the sea" (comp. Amos 9:1-10) may, in the quotation, only stand generally for east and west, the sea being here the Mediterranean. But most probably the original verse referred to the passage of the Red Sea and the contest with the king of Bashan.

Verse 22. - The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea. Our translators' interpolation of the words, "my people," is unhappy. The psalmist means to represent God as threatening his enemies, not as encouraging his faithful ones. Though his enemies (ver. 21) fly to Bashan and bury themselves in its woods, or though they even hide themselves in the depths of the sea, he will search them out, and "bring them back," that vengeance may be taken on them (see ver. 23).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The Lord
אֲ֭דֹנָי (’ă·ḏō·nāy)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 136: The Lord

said,
אָמַ֣ר (’ā·mar)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“I will retrieve [them]
אָשִׁ֑יב (’ā·šîḇ)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

from Bashan,
מִבָּשָׁ֣ן (mib·bā·šān)
Preposition-m | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 1316: Bashan -- 'smooth', a region East of the Jordan

I will bring [them] up
אָ֝שִׁ֗יב (’ā·šîḇ)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

from the depths
מִֽמְּצֻל֥וֹת (mim·mə·ṣu·lō·wṯ)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 4688: A deep place

of the sea,
יָֽם׃ (yām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin


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