Psalms 92:9

9 For surely your enemies, LORD, surely your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.

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Psalms 92:9 in Other Translations

KJV

9 For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

ESV

9 For behold, your enemies, O LORD, for behold, your enemies shall perish; all evildoers shall be scattered.

NLT

9 Your enemies, LORD, will surely perish; all evildoers will be scattered.

MSG

9 Look at your enemies, God! Look at your enemies - ruined! Scattered to the winds, all those hirelings of evil!

CSB

9 For indeed, Lord, Your enemies- indeed, Your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.

Psalms 92:9 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 92:9

For, lo, thine enemies, O Lord
The particle "lo", or "behold", is not used for the sake of God, but for the sake of men; to excite their attention, and to observe unto them that those who are everlastingly destroyed are the enemies of the Lord; who are enemies in their minds by wicked works, yea, enmity itself against God; and therefore their perdition is just as well as certain; sooner or later these shall be brought forth and slain before him; and for the certainty of it is repeated,

for, lo, thine enemies shall perish;
the Targum adds, in the world to come: "all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered"; one from another, and not be able to unite and combine together against the saints, as they have done; or they shall be separated from them at the last day, being placed at Christ's left hand; and shall not stand in judgment, nor in the congregation of the righteous; and so the Targum,