Psalm 76:12 {75:13}
Good News Translation
he humbles proud princes and terrifies great kings.

New Revised Standard Version
who cuts off the spirit of princes, who inspires fear in the kings of the earth.

Contemporary English Version
God destroys the courage of rulers and kings and makes cowards of them.

New American Bible
Who checks the spirit of princes, who is fearful to the kings of earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Even to him who taketh away the spirit of princes: to the terrible with the kings of the earth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Even to him who taketh away the spirit of princes: to the terrible with the kings of the earth.

he shall

Psalm 2:5,10 Then shall he speak to them in his anger, and trouble them in his rage. . . .

Psalm 48:4-6 For behold the kings of the earth assembled themselves: they gathered together. . . .

Psalm 68:12,35 The king of powers is of the beloved, of the beloved; and the beauty of the house shall divide spoils. . . .

Joshua 5:1 Now when all the kings of the Amorrhites, who dwelt beyond the Jordan, westward, and all the kings of Chanaan, who possessed the places near the great sea, had heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the children of Israel, till they passed over, their heart failed them, and there remained no spirit in them, fearing the coming in of the children of Israel.

2 Chronicles 32:21 And the Lord sent an angel, who cut off all the stout men and the warriors, and the captains of the army of the king of the Assyrians: and he returned with disgrace into his own country. And when he was come into the house of his god, his sons that came out of his bowels, slew him with the sword.

Zephaniah 3:6 I have destroyed the nations, and their towers are beaten down: I have made their ways desert, so that there is none that passeth by: their cities are desolate, there is not a man remaining, nor any inhabitant.

terrible

Isaiah 13:6-8 Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near: it shall come as a destruction from the Lord. . . .

Isaiah 24:21 And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord shall visit upon the host of heaven on high, and upon the kings of the earth, on the earth.

Revelation 6:15 And the kings of the earth and the princes and tribunes and the rich and the strong and every bondman and every freeman hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of mountains:

Revelation 19:17-21 And I saw an angel standing in the sun: and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that did fly through the midst of heaven: Come, gather yourselves together to the great supper of God: . . .

Context
God's Name is Great in Israel
11Vow ye, and pay to the Lord your God: all you that are round about him bring presents. To him that is terrible, 12Even to him who taketh away the spirit of princes: to the terrible with the kings of the earth.
Cross References
Psalm 47:2
For the Lord is high, terrible: a great king over all the earth.

Psalm 110:5
The Lord at thy right hand hath broken kings in the day of his wrath.

Isaiah 24:21
And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord shall visit upon the host of heaven on high, and upon the kings of the earth, on the earth.

Psalm 76:11
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