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Psa. 53:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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There θwere they in great fearz, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, becausec God hath despised them.

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they feared a fear.

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Prov. 28:1• ¹The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion. (Prov. 28:1)

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Jer. 6:30• ³⁰Reprobate silver shall they call them, for Jehovah hath rejected them. (Jer. 6:30)

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Lev. 26:17,36• ¹⁷And I will set my face against you, that ye may be routed before your enemies; they that hate you shall have dominion over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
³⁶And as to those that remain of you--I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, that the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth; (Lev. 26:17,36)

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Deut. 28:65‑67• ⁶⁵And among these nations shalt thou have no rest, neither shall the sole of thy foot have a resting-place, and Jehovah shall give thee there a trembling heart, languishing of the eyes, and pining of the soul.
⁶⁶And thy life shall hang in suspense before thee; and thou shalt be in terror day and night and shalt be afraid of thy life.
⁶⁷In the morning thou shalt say, Would that it were even! and in the evening thou shalt say, Would that it were morning! through the fright of thy heart wherewith thou shalt be in terror, and through the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. (Deut. 28:65‑67)

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1 Sam. 14:15• ¹⁵And there was trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the garrison, and the ravagers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked; for it was a trembling from God. (1 Sam. 14:15)

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2 Kings 7:6‑7• ⁶For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, a noise of a great host; and they said one to another, Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
⁷And they rose up and fled in the dusk, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, the camp as it was, and fled for their life. (2 Kings 7:6‑7)

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Job 15:21• ²¹The sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer cometh upon him. (Job 15:21)

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Prov. 28:1• ¹The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion. (Prov. 28:1)

were they in great fear.

Heb. they feared a fear.

Psa. 14:5• ⁵There were they in great fear; for God is in the generation of the righteous. (Psa. 14:5)

scattered.

Psa. 141:7• ⁷Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth. (Psa. 141:7)

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Ezek. 6:5• ⁵and I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars. (Ezek. 6:5)

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Ezek. 37:1‑11• ¹The hand of Jehovah was upon me, and Jehovah carried me out in the Spirit, and set me down in the midst of a valley; and it was full of bones.
²And he caused me to pass by them round about; and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry.
³And he said unto me, Son of man, Shall these bones live? And I said, Lord Jehovah, thou knowest.
⁴And he said unto me, Prophesy over these bones, and say unto them, Ye dry bones, hear the word of Jehovah.
⁵Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live.
⁶And I will put sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
⁷And I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a rustling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone.
⁸And I looked, and behold, sinews and flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them over; but there was no breath in them.
⁹And he said unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
¹⁰And I prophesied as he had commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
¹¹And he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off! (Ezek. 37:1‑11)

thou hast.

Psa. 35:4,26• ⁴Let them be put to shame and confounded that seek after my life; let them be turned backward and brought to confusion that devise my hurt:
²⁶Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine adversity; let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me. (Psa. 35:4,26)

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Psa. 40:14• ¹⁴Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be turned backward and confounded that take pleasure in mine adversity; (Psa. 40:14)

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Psa. 83:16‑17• ¹⁶Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O Jehovah.
¹⁷Let them be put to shame and be dismayed for ever, and let them be confounded and perish: (Psa. 83:16‑17)

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Psa. 2:4• ⁴He that dwelleth in the heavens shall laugh, the Lord shall have them in derision. (Psa. 2:4)

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Psa. 73:20• ²⁰As a dream, when one awaketh, wilt thou, Lord, on arising despise their image. (Psa. 73:20)

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Isa. 37:22‑38• ²²this is the word which Jehovah hath spoken against him: The virgin-daughter of Zion despiseth thee, laugheth thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem shaketh her head at thee.
²³Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted the voice? Against the Holy One of Israel hast thou lifted up thine eyes on high.
²⁴By thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the recesses of Lebanon; and I will cut down its tall cedars, the choice of its cypresses; and I will enter into its furthest height, into the forest of its fruitful field.
²⁵I have digged and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the streams of Matsor.
²⁶Hast thou not heard that long ago I did it, and that from ancient days I formed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
²⁷And their inhabitants were powerless, they were dismayed and put to shame; they were as the grass of the field and the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and grain blighted before it be grown up.
²⁸But I know thine abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against me.
²⁹Because thy raging against me and thine arrogance is come up into mine ears, I will put my ring in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will make thee go back by the way by which thou camest.
³⁰And this shall be the sign unto thee: there shall be eaten this year such as groweth of itself; and in the second year that which springeth of the same; but in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards and eat the fruit thereof.
³¹And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward;
³²for out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of mount Zion they that escape: the zeal of Jehovah of hosts shall do this.
³³Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
³⁴By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith Jehovah.
³⁵And I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
³⁶And an angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead bodies.
³⁷And Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and abode at Nineveh.
³⁸And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead. (Isa. 37:22‑38)

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Jer. 6:30• ³⁰Reprobate silver shall they call them, for Jehovah hath rejected them. (Jer. 6:30)

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Lam. 2:6• ⁶And he hath violently cast down his enclosure as a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly: Jehovah hath caused set feast and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger king and priest. (Lam. 2:6)

• If the fear spoken of in verse 5 be of the congregation of the just, as I suppose, there we see how needless the fear of the godly is in the day of the power of evil. The more it increases, the more the question becomes God's. At its height it is wholly so; consequently, the less reason there is to fear. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 49-54” by J.N. Darby)

• Those in great fear would seem to indicate the ungodly nation of the Jews, associated with antichrist (Isa. 33:14). They fear as they see the armies encamped against Zion. There will be no ground for fear; for God will destroy the opposing enemy, putting to shame and despising those who had despised God. (“Psalms 53” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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There were they in great fear, where no fear was; for God scattereth the bones of him that encampeth against thee. Thou hast put them to shame, for God hath despised them.