GOD'S WORD Translation GW
New International Version NIV
11 The sun and the moon stand still. They scatter at the light of your arrows, at the bright lightning of your spear.
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Sun and moon stood still in the heavens at the glint of your flying arrows, at the lightning of your flashing spear.
12 You march through the earth with fury. You trample the nations in anger.
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In wrath you strode through the earth and in anger you threshed the nations.
13 You go out to save your people, to save your anointed. You crush the leader of the wicked household, stripping him bare from head to toe. Selah
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You came out to deliver your people, to save your anointed one. You crushed the leader of the land of wickedness, you stripped him from head to foot.
14 You pierce the leader of his gang with his own arrows. His soldiers come like a violent storm to scatter me. They are arrogant like those who secretly eat up the poor.
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With his own spear you pierced his head when his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though about to devour the wretched who were in hiding.
15 You march with your horses into the sea, into the mighty raging waters.
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You trampled the sea with your horses, churning the great waters.
16 I have heard, so there's trembling within me. At the report my lips quivered. A rotten feeling has entered me. I tremble where I stand. I wait for the day of trouble to come to the people who will attack us.
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I heard and my heart pounded, my lips quivered at the sound; decay crept into my bones, and my legs trembled. Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity to come on the nation invading us.
17 Even if the fig tree does not bloom and the vines have no grapes, even if the olive tree fails to produce and the fields yield no food, even if the sheep pen is empty and the stalls have no cattle--
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Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls,
18 even then, I will be happy with the LORD. I will truly find joy in God, who saves me.
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yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior.
19 The LORD Almighty is my strength. He makes my feet like those of a deer. He makes me walk on the mountains. For the choir director; on stringed instruments.
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The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights.
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