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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;{HR}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 heart in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee as one 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 host, in the field, and among all the people. 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 voice of terrors [is] in his ears;{HR}In peace the destroyer falleth on him. (Job 15:21)

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Prov. 28:1• ¹The wicked flee when no man pursueth;{HR}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 have they greatly feared;{HR}For God [is] in the generation of the righteous. (Psa. 14:5)

scattered.

Psa. 141:7• ⁷Like one cutting or splitting on the earth,{HR}Scattered are our bones at Sheol's mouth. (Psa. 141:7)

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Ezek. 6:5• ⁵And I will lay the dead carcasses 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 carried me out in the Spirit of Jehovah, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
²and caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
³And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord Jehovah, thou knowest.
⁴And he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O 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 lay 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.
⁷So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
⁸And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
⁹Then said he 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.
¹⁰So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet an exceeding great army.
¹¹Then 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 for our parts. (Ezek. 37:1‑11)

thou hast.

Psa. 35:4,26• ⁴They shall be ashamed and put to shame who seek after my soul;{HR}They shall be driven backward and confounded who devise my hurt.
²⁶They shall be ashamed and confounded together who rejoice at my hurt;{HR}They shall be clothed with shame and reproach who magnify themselves against me. (Psa. 35:4,26)

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Psa. 40:14• ¹⁴They shall be ashamed and confounded together that seek my soul to destroy it;{HR}Driven back and disgraced shall they be that wish my hurt. (Psa. 40:14)

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Psa. 83:16‑17• ¹⁶Fill their faces with shame,{HR}That [and] they will seek thy name, O Jehovah.
¹⁷They shall be ashamed and dismayed forever,{HR}And they shall be confounded and perish. (Psa. 83:16‑17)

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Psa. 2:4• ⁴He who sitteth in the heavens laugheth:{HR}The Lord derideth them. (Psa. 2:4)

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Psa. 73:20• ²⁰As a dream on awaking, so, O Lord (Adonai),{HR}In arising, wilt thou 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 hath despised thee, [and] laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken 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 hast thou 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, its choice cypresses: and I will enter into the height of its border, 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 rivers of Matsor.
²⁶Hast thou not heard long ago I have done it, how of ancient days I purposed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest waste fortified cities [to] ruinous heaps.
²⁷And their inhabitants [were] powerless, they were dismayed and put to shame; they were [as] the grass of the field, the green herb, the grass on the housetops, and [corn] blighted before it be grown up.
²⁸But I know thy sitting down, 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; ye shall eat this year that which groweth of itself, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and 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 shall escape; the zeal of Jehovah of hosts shall perform this.
³³Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come unto this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast a mount against it.
³⁴By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come unto this city, saith Jehovah.
³⁵For I will defend this city to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
³⁶And the angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when men arose early in the morning, behold, they [were] all dead corpses.
³⁷And Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt 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 Esar-haddon 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 taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden:{HR}He hath destroyed his places of the assembly.{HR}Jehovah hath caused the solemn feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion,{HR}And hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the 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. (“Psalm 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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There have they greatly feared [where] no fear was;{HR}For God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee.{HR}Thou hast put [them] to shame,{HR}For God hath rejected them.