Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Endless ruin has overtaken my enemies, you have uprooted their cities; even the memory of them has perished. New Living Translation The enemy is finished, in endless ruins; the cities you uprooted are now forgotten. English Standard Version The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins; their cities you rooted out; the very memory of them has perished. Berean Standard Bible The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished. King James Bible O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them. New King James Version O enemy, destructions are finished forever! And you have destroyed cities; Even their memory has perished. New American Standard Bible The enemy has come to an end in everlasting ruins, And You have uprooted the cities; The very memory of them has perished. NASB 1995 The enemy has come to an end in perpetual ruins, And You have uprooted the cities; The very memory of them has perished. NASB 1977 The enemy has come to an end in perpetual ruins, And Thou hast uprooted the cities; The very memory of them has perished. Legacy Standard Bible The enemy has come to an end in perpetual ruins, And You have uprooted the cities; The very memory of them has perished. Amplified Bible The enemy has been cut off and has vanished in everlasting ruins, You have uprooted their cities; The very memory of them has perished. Christian Standard Bible The enemy has come to eternal ruin; you have uprooted the cities, and the very memory of them has perished. Holman Christian Standard Bible The enemy has come to eternal ruin; You have uprooted the cities, and the very memory of them has perished. American Standard Version The enemy are come to an end, they are desolate for ever; And the cities which thou hast overthrown, The very remembrance of them is perished. Contemporary English Version Our enemies are destroyed completely for all time. Their cities are torn down, and they will never be remembered again. English Revised Version The enemy are come to an end, they are desolate for ever; and the cities which thou hast overthrown, their very memorial is perished. GOD'S WORD® Translation The enemy is finished-in ruins forever. You have uprooted their cities. Even the memory of them has faded. Good News Translation Our enemies are finished forever; you have destroyed their cities, and they are completely forgotten. International Standard Version The enemy has perished, reduced to ruins forever. You uprooted their cities, the very memory of them vanished. Majority Standard Bible The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished. NET Bible The enemy's cities have been reduced to permanent ruins; you destroyed their cities; all memory of the enemies has perished. New Heart English Bible The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin; and the very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished. Webster's Bible Translation O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial hath perished with them. World English Bible The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionThe enemy—[your] destructions have been completed forever, "" As for cities you have plucked up, "" Their memorial has perished with them. Young's Literal Translation O thou Enemy, Finished have been destructions for ever, As to cities thou hast plucked up, Perished hath their memorial with them. Smith's Literal Translation O enemy! desolations were wholly finished, and thou didst tear down cities; their remembrance perished with them. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleThe swords of the enemy have failed unto the end: and their cities thou hast destroyed. Their memory hath perished with a noise. Catholic Public Domain Version New American Bible The enemies have been ruined forever; you destroyed their cities; their memory has perished. New Revised Standard Version The enemies have vanished in everlasting ruins; their cities you have rooted out; the very memory of them has perished. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleMy enemies have been annihilated by the sword for ever; and thou hast destroyed the villages and their very memory hath perished. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated My enemies are finished by the sword; you have ripped out cities for eternity and you have destroyed their memorial. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917O thou enemy, the waste places are come to an end for ever; And the cities which thou didst uproot, Their very memorial is perished. Brenton Septuagint Translation The swords of the enemy have failed utterly; and thou hast destroyed cities: their memorial has been destroyed with a noise, Audio Bible Context I Will Give Thanks to the LORD…5You have rebuked the nations; You have destroyed the wicked; You have erased their name forever and ever. 6The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished. 7But the LORD abides forever; He has established His throne for judgment.… Cross References Isaiah 14:22-23 “I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD. / “I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts. Ezekiel 26:19-21 For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When I make you a desolate city like other deserted cities, and when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you, / then I will bring you down with those who descend to the Pit, to the people of antiquity. I will make you dwell in the earth below like the ancient ruins, with those who descend to the Pit, so that you will no longer be inhabited or set in splendor in the land of the living. / I will make you an object of horror, and you will be no more. You will be sought, but will never be found,’ declares the Lord GOD.” Jeremiah 51:25-26 “Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain. / No one shall retrieve from you a cornerstone or a foundation stone, because you will become desolate forever,” declares the LORD. Nahum 1:14 The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.” Zephaniah 2:13-15 And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert. / Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie on the threshold, for He will expose the beams of cedar. / This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist. Revelation 18:21 Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again. Isaiah 34:10-12 It will not be quenched—day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it. / The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction. / No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will come to nothing. Jeremiah 50:13 Because of the wrath of the LORD, she will not be inhabited; she will become completely desolate. All who pass through Babylon will be horrified and will hiss at all her wounds. Obadiah 1:10 Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever. Malachi 1:4 Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people with whom the LORD is indignant forever. Revelation 19:20 But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. Isaiah 13:19-22 And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah. / She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there. / But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about. ... Jeremiah 49:17-18 “Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds. / As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,” says the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there. Revelation 14:8 Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.” Isaiah 47:1-3 “Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate. / Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams. / Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.” Treasury of Scripture O you enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and you have destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them. O thou. Psalm 7:5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah. Psalm 8:2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. Exodus 15:16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased. destructions Psalm 46:9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. Exodus 14:13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. Isaiah 10:24,25 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt… thou hast 1 Samuel 30:1 And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire; 1 Samuel 31:7 And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the valley, and they that were on the other side Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them. Isaiah 10:6,7,13,14 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets… memorial 2 Kings 19:25 Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps. Isaiah 14:22,23 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD… Jeremiah 51:62-64 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever… Jump to Previous Cities Desolate Destroyed Destruction Destructions End Ended Endless Enemy Everlasting Finished Memorial Memory Overtaken Overthrown Perished Perpetual Places Plucked Remembrance Ruin Ruins Towns Uproot Uprooted Vanished WasteJump to Next Cities Desolate Destroyed Destruction Destructions End Ended Endless Enemy Everlasting Finished Memorial Memory Overtaken Overthrown Perished Perpetual Places Plucked Remembrance Ruin Ruins Towns Uproot Uprooted Vanished WastePsalm 9 1. David praises God for executing judgment11. He incites others to praise him 13. He prays that he may have cause to praise him Endless ruin The phrase "endless ruin" conveys a sense of complete and utter destruction. In the Hebrew text, the word often translated as "ruin" is "charbah," which can mean desolation or waste. This term is used throughout the Old Testament to describe the aftermath of divine judgment. The use of "endless" emphasizes the permanence of this destruction, suggesting that the enemies of God face a ruin that is not temporary but eternal. This reflects the ultimate victory of God over evil, a theme that resonates throughout the Psalms and the entire Bible. has overtaken the enemy You have uprooted their cities the very memory of them has vanished Destructions.--Properly, desolations, ruins, from a word meaning "to be dried up." Come to a perpetual end.--Properly, are completed for ever. Thou hast destroyed.--Some understand the relative: "the cities which thou hast destroyed." Their memorial.--Better, their very memory is perished; literally, their memory, theirs. (Comp. "He cannot flatter, he"--Shakespeare, King Lear). The LXX. and Vulg. read, "with a sound," referring to the crash of falling cities. Some would substitute enemies for cities, but they lose the emphasis of the passage, which points to the utter evanishment from history of great cities as a consequence and sign of Divine judgment. Probably the poet thinks of Sodom and Gomorrha, whose overthrow left such a signal mark on the thought of Israel. We think of the mounds of earth which alone represent Nineveh and Babylon. "'Mid far sands, The palm-tree cinctured city stands, Bright white beneath, as heaven, bright blue, Leans over it, while the years pursue Their course, unable to abate Its paradisal laugh at fate. One morn the Arab staggers blind . . . Verse 6. - O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end. It is better to translate, with the Revised Version, The enemy are come to an end; they are desolate for ever - a continuance of the hyperbole already noticed in the preceding verse. And thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them; rather, and as for the cities thou hast destroyed, their very memory has perished. This could only be an anticipation. It was fulfilled in the complete disappearance from history of the names of Zoba, Beth-rehob, and Tob, after the victory described in 2 Samuel 10:13, 14.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew The enemyהָֽאוֹיֵ֨ב ׀ (hā·’ō·w·yêḇ) Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 341: Hating, an adversary has come to eternal לָ֫נֶ֥צַח (lā·ne·ṣaḥ) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 5331: Eminence, enduring, everlastingness, perpetuity ruin, חֳרָב֗וֹת (ḥo·rā·ḇō·wṯ) Noun - feminine plural Strong's 2723: Waste, desolation, ruin and You have uprooted נָתַ֑שְׁתָּ (nā·ṯaš·tā) Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 5428: To pull or pluck up, root out their cities; וְעָרִ֥ים (wə·‘ā·rîm) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural Strong's 5892: Excitement the very memory זִכְרָ֣ם (ziḵ·rām) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 2143: A memento, recollection, commemoration of them הֵֽמָּה׃ (hêm·māh) Pronoun - third person masculine plural Strong's 1992: They has vanished. אָבַ֖ד (’ā·ḇaḏ) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 6: To wander away, lose oneself, to perish Links Psalm 9:6 NIVPsalm 9:6 NLT Psalm 9:6 ESV Psalm 9:6 NASB Psalm 9:6 KJV Psalm 9:6 BibleApps.com Psalm 9:6 Biblia Paralela Psalm 9:6 Chinese Bible Psalm 9:6 French Bible Psalm 9:6 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 9:6 The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin (Psalm Ps Psa.) |
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