Psalm 9:20
Modern Translations
New International Version
Strike them with terror, LORD; let the nations know they are only mortal.

New Living Translation
Make them tremble in fear, O LORD. Let the nations know they are merely human. Interlude

English Standard Version
Put them in fear, O LORD! Let the nations know that they are but men! Selah

Berean Study Bible
Lay terror upon them, O LORD; let the nations know they are but men. Selah

New American Standard Bible
Put them in fear, LORD; Let the nations know that they are merely human. Selah

NASB 1995
Put them in fear, O LORD; Let the nations know that they are but men. Selah.

NASB 1977
Put them in fear, O LORD; Let the nations know that they are but men. Selah.

Amplified Bible
Put them in [reverent] fear of You, O LORD, So that the nations may know they are but [frail and mortal] men. Selah.

Christian Standard Bible
Put terror in them, LORD; let the nations know they are only humans. Selah

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Put terror in them, LORD; let the nations know they are only men. Selah

Contemporary English Version
Make the nations afraid and let them all discover just how weak they are.

Good News Translation
Make them afraid, O LORD; make them know that they are only mortal beings.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Strike them with terror, O LORD. Let the nations know that they are [only] mortal. [Selah]

International Standard Version
Make them afraid, LORD, Let the nations know that they are only human. Interlude

NET Bible
Terrify them, LORD! Let the nations know they are mere mortals! (Selah)
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

New King James Version
Put them in fear, O LORD, That the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah

King James 2000 Bible
Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

New Heart English Bible
Terrify them, LORD. Let the nations know that they are only human. Selah.

World English Bible
Put them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.

American King James Version
Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

American Standard Version
Put them in fear, O Jehovah: Let the nations know themselves to be but men. Selah

A Faithful Version
Put them in fear, O LORD, let the nations know that they are but men. Selah.

Darby Bible Translation
Put them in fear, Jehovah: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

English Revised Version
Put them in fear, O LORD: let the nations know themselves to be but men. Selah

Webster's Bible Translation
Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Put them in feare, O Lorde, that the heathen may knowe that they are but men. Selah.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Put them in feare O God: that the Heathen may knowe them selues to be but men. Selah.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
O LORDE, set a scolemaster ouer the, that the Heithe maye knowe them selues to be but me. Sela.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Appoint them to fear, O YHWH, "" Let nations know they [are] men! Selah.

Young's Literal Translation
Appoint, O Jehovah, a director to them, Let nations know they are men! Selah.

Smith's Literal Translation
Put fear to them, O Jehovah: the nations shall know they are man. Silence.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: that the Gentiles may know themselves to be but men.

Catholic Public Domain Version
O Lord, establish a lawgiver over them, so that the Gentiles may know that they are only men.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Establish a lawgiver for them, who shall instruct the nations that they are children of men.

Lamsa Bible
Appoint for them a lawgiver, that the Gentiles may know themselves to be but men.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Set terror over them, O LORD; Let the nations know they are but men. Selah

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: let the heathen know that they are men. Pause.
















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