2 Samuel 22:45

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Sons of a stranger feign obedience to me, At the hearing of the ear they hearken to me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 66:3 : 3 Say to God, `How fearful `are' Thy works, By the abundance of Thy strength, Thine enemies feign obedience to Thee.
  • Ps 81:15 : 15 Those hating Jehovah feign obedience to Him, But their time is -- to the age.
  • Isa 56:3 : 3 Nor speak let a son of the stranger, Who is joined unto Jehovah, saying: `Jehovah doth certainly separate me from His people.' Nor say let the eunuch, `Lo, I am a tree dried up,'
  • Isa 56:6 : 6 And sons of the stranger, who are joined to Jehovah, To serve Him, and to love the name of Jehovah, To be to Him for servants, Every keeper of the sabbath from polluting it, And those keeping hold on My covenant.
  • Acts 8:13 : 13 and Simon also himself did believe, and, having been baptized, he was continuing with Philip, beholding also signs and mighty acts being done, he was amazed.
  • Acts 8:21-23 : 21 thou hast neither part nor lot in this thing, for thy heart is not right before God; 22 reform, therefore, from this thy wickedness, and beseech God, if then the purpose of thy heart may be forgiven thee, 23 for in the gall of bitterness, and bond of unrighteousness, I perceive thee being.'
  • Deut 33:29 : 29 O thy happiness, O Israel! who is like thee? A people saved by Jehovah, The shield of thy help, And He who `is' the sword of thine excellency: And thine enemies are subdued for thee, And thou on their high places dost tread.'
  • Ps 18:44-45 : 44 At the hearing of the ear they hearken to me, Sons of a stranger feign obedience to me, 45 Sons of a stranger fade away, And are slain out of their close places.

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  • Ps 18:42-45
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    42 And I beat them as dust before wind, As mire of the streets I empty them out.

    43 Thou dost deliver me From the strivings of the people, Thou placest me for a head of nations, A people I have not known do serve me.

    44 At the hearing of the ear they hearken to me, Sons of a stranger feign obedience to me,

    45 Sons of a stranger fade away, And are slain out of their close places.

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    43 And I beat them as dust of the earth, As mire of the streets I beat them small -- I spread them out!

    44 And -- Thou dost deliver me From the strivings of my people, Thou placest me for a head of nations; A people I have not known do serve me.

  • 46 Sons of a stranger fade away, And gird themselves by their close places.

  • Ps 72:9-11
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    9 Before him bow do the inhabitants of the dry places, And his enemies lick the dust.

    10 Kings of Tarshish and of the isles send back a present. Kings of Sheba and Seba a reward bring near.

    11 And all kings do bow themselves to him, All nations do serve him,

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    40 And Thou girdest me `with' strength for battle, Thou causest my withstanders to bow under me.

    41 And mine enemies -- Thou givest to me the neck, Those hating me -- and I cut them off.

  • Ps 18:38-40
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    38 I smite them, and they are not able to rise, They fall under my feet,

    39 And Thou girdest me `with' strength for battle, Causest my withstanders to bow under me.

    40 As to mine enemies -- Thou hast given to me the neck, As to those hating me -- I cut them off.

  • 3 For strangers have risen up against me And terrible ones have sought my soul, They have not set God before them. Selah.

  • 15 Sojourners of my house and my maids, For a stranger reckon me: An alien I have been in their eyes.

  • 11 and it hath been, if Peace it answer thee, and hath opened to thee, then it hath come to pass -- all the people who are found in it are to thee for tributaries, and have served thee.

  • 47 God -- who is giving vengeance to me, And He subdueth peoples under me,

  • 5 And strangers have stood and fed your flock, Sons of a foreigner `are' your husbandmen, And your vine-dressers.

  • 14 Thus said Jehovah, `The labour of Egypt, And the merchandise of Cush, And of the Sebaim -- men of measure, Unto thee pass over, and thine they are, After thee they go, in fetters they pass over, And unto thee they bow themselves, Unto thee they pray: Only in thee `is' God, And there is none else, no `other' God.

  • 43 the sojourner who `is' in thy midst goeth up above thee very high, and thou goest down very low;

  • 3 He leadeth peoples under us, and nations under our feet.

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    48 God -- who is giving vengeance to me, And bringing down peoples under me,

    49 And bringing me forth from mine enemies, Yea, above my withstanders Thou raisest me up. From a man of violence Thou deliverest me.

  • 27 Remember and return unto Jehovah, Do all ends of the earth, And before Thee bow themselves, Do all families of the nations,

  • 10 And sons of a stranger have built thy walls, And their kings do serve thee, For in My wrath I have smitten thee, And in My good pleasure I have pitied thee.

  • 14 As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand,

  • 5 Lo, a nation thou knowest not, thou callest, And a nation who know thee not unto thee do run, For the sake of Jehovah thy God, And for the Holy One of Israel, Because He hath beautified thee.

  • 15 For, lo, little I have made thee among nations, Despised among men.

  • 41 `And also, unto the stranger who is not of Thy people Israel, and hath come from a land afar off for Thy name's sake --

  • 7 Therefore, lo, I am bringing in against thee strangers, The terrible of the nations, And they have drawn out their swords Against the beauty of thy wisdom, And they have pierced thy brightness.

  • 45 and also of the sons of the settlers who are sojourning with you, of them ye buy, and of their families who `are' with you, which they have begotten in your land, and they have been to you for a possession;

  • 23 And kings have been thy nursing fathers, And their princesses thy nursing mothers; Face to the earth -- they bow down to thee, And the dust of thy feet they lick up, And thou hast known that I `am' Jehovah, That those expecting Me are not ashamed.

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    8 Ask of Me and I give nations -- thy inheritance, And thy possession -- the ends of earth.

  • 14 Peoples have heard, they are troubled; Pain hath seized inhabitants of Philistia.

  • 2 And peoples have taken them, And have brought them in unto their place, And the house of Israel have inherited them, On the land of Jehovah, For men-servants and for maid-servants, And they have been captors of their captors, And have ruled over their exactors.

  • 11 Fearful `is' Jehovah against them, For He made bare all gods of the land, And bow themselves to Him, each from his place, Do all islanders of the nations.

  • 4 O Jehovah, all kings of earth confess Thee, When they have heard the sayings of Thy mouth.

  • 5 And as small dust hath been The multitude of those scattering thee, And as chaff passing on the multitude of the terrible, And it hath been at an instant -- suddenly.

  • 2 My kind one, and my bulwark, My tower, and my deliverer, My shield, and in whom I have trusted, Who is subduing my people under me!

  • 15 And nations fear the name of Jehovah, And all kings of the earth Thine honour,

  • 5 Near `is' My righteousness, Gone out hath My salvation and Mine arms, Peoples they judge, on Me isles do wait, Yea, on Mine arm they do wait with hope.

  • 3 Therefore honour Thee do a strong people, A city of the terrible nations feareth Thee.

  • 2 The rod of thy strength doth Jehovah send from Zion, Rule in the midst of thine enemies.

  • 49 `Jehovah doth lift up against thee a nation, from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle it flieth; a nation whose tongue thou hast not heard,

  • 15 In Thy hand `are' my times, Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, And from my pursuers.

  • 15 Lo, he doth diligently assemble without My desire, Who hath assembled near thee? By thee he falleth!

  • 22 A cry is heard from their houses, For Thou bringest against them suddenly a troop, For they dug a pit to capture me, And snares they have hidden for my feet.

  • 12 For the nation and the kingdom that do not serve thee perish, Yea, the nations are utterly wasted.