Psalm 9:3 {4}
Good News Translation
My enemies turn back when you appear; they fall down and die.

New Revised Standard Version
When my enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished before you.

Contemporary English Version
When my enemies face you, they run away and stumble and are destroyed.

New American Bible
When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish before you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When my enemy shall be turned back: they shall be weakened, and perish before thy face.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

When my enemy shall be turned back: they shall be weakened, and perish before thy face.

they shall

Psalm 68:1,2 Unto the end, a psalm of a canticle for David himself. [2] Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered: and let them that hate him flee from before his face. . . .

Psalm 76:7 Thou art terrible, and who shall resist thee? from that time thy wrath.

Psalm 80:16 Things set on fire and dug down shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

Isaiah 64:3 When thou shalt do wonderful things, we shall not bear them: thou didst come down, and at thy presence the mountains melted away.

2 Thessalonians 1:9 Who shall suffer eternal punishment in destruction, from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his power:

Revelation 6:12-17 And I saw, when he had opened the sixth seal: and behold there was a great earthquake. And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair: and the whole moon became as blood. . . .

Revelation 20:11 And I saw a great white throne and one sitting upon it, from whose face the earth and heaven fled away: and there was no place found for them

Context
I Will Give Thanks to the LORD
2I will be glad, and rejoice in thee: I will sing to thy name, O thou most high. 3When my enemy shall be turned back: they shall be weakened, and perish before thy face.4For thou hast maintained my judgment and my cause: thou hast sat on the throne, who judgest justice.…
Cross References
Psalm 27:2
Whilst the wicked draw near against me, to eat my flesh. My enemies that trouble me, have themselves been weakened, and have fallen.

Psalm 56:9
Then shall my enemies be turned back. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, behold I know thou art my God.

Psalm 64:8
And their tongues against them are made weak. All that saw them were troubled;

Psalm 68:2
As smoke vanisheth, so let them vanish away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

Psalm 9:2
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