Psalm 63:10 “They will fall to the power of the sword; they will become a portion f…”

Psalm 63:10

They will fall to the power of the sword; they will become a portion for foxes.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.

World English Bible

They shall be given over to the power of the sword. They shall be jackal food.

American Standard Version

They shall be given over to the power of the sword: They shall be a portion for foxes.

Geneva Bible 1599

They shall cast him downe with the edge of the sword, and they shall be a portion for foxes.

Darby Translation

They shall be given over to the power of the sword; they shall be the portion of foxes.

Young's Literal Translation

They cause him to run on the edge of the sword, A portion for foxes they are.

Bible in Basic English

They will be cut off by the sword; they will be food for foxes.

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Cross references

“They shall fall, etc”

Jeremiah 18:21 Ezekiel 35:5 1 Samuel 26:10 1 Samuel 31:1–6

Jeremiah 18:21 · BSB

Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in…

Ezekiel 35:5 · BSB

Because you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster at the final stage of their punishment,

1 Samuel 26:10 · BSB

David added, “As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.

1 Samuel 31:1–6 · BSB

Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa.

“a portion”

Ezekiel 39:4 Song of Solomon 2:15 Ezekiel 39:17–20 Revelation 19:17 Revelation 19:18

Ezekiel 39:4 · BSB

On the mountains of Israel you will fall—you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to every kind of ravenous bird and wild beast.

Song of Solomon 2:15 · BSB

Catch for us the foxes— the little foxes that ruin the vineyards— for our vineyards are in bloom.

Ezekiel 39:17–20 · BSB

And as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Call out to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you…

Revelation 19:17 · BSB

Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice to all the birds flying overhead, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God,

Revelation 19:18 · BSB

so that you may eat the flesh of kings and commanders and mighty men, of horses and riders, of everyone slave and free, small and great.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

9But those who seek my life to destroy it will go into the depths of the earth.

11But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by Him will exult, for the mouths of liars will be shut.

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