Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 10:16
16The Lord is King forever and ever; the nations will perish from his land.
Psalms 10:16 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The Lord is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
- New International Version (NIV)The Lord is King for ever and ever; the nations will perish from his land.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The Lord is king forever and ever; the nations perish from his land.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The Lord is King forever and ever; The nations have perished out of His land.
Context of Psalms 10:16
14But you yourself have seen trouble and grief, observing it in order to take the matter into your hands. The helpless one entrusts himself to you; you are a helper of the fatherless. 15Break the arm of the wicked, evil person, until you look for his wickedness, but it can’t be found. The Lord is King forever and ever; the nations will perish from his land. 17Lord, you have heard the desire of the humble; you will strengthen their hearts. You will listen carefully, 18doing justice for the fatherless and the oppressed so that mere humans from the earth may terrify them no more.
Read all of Psalms 10Psalms 10:16 word by word
יְהוָ֣ה מֶ֭לֶךְ עוֹלָ֣ם וָעֶ֑ד אָבְד֥וּ ג֝וֹיִ֗ם מֵֽאַרְצֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 10:16
- Psalms 29:10The Lord sits enthroned over the flood; the Lord sits enthroned, King forever.
- Psalms 93:1The Lord reigns! He is robed in majesty; the Lord is robed, enveloped in strength. The world is firmly established; it cannot be shaken.
- Psalms 145:13Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom; your rule is for all generations. The Lord is faithful in all his words and gracious in all his actions.
- Psalms 146:10The Lord reigns forever; Zion, your God reigns for all generations. Hallelujah!
- Isaiah 33:22For the Lord is our Judge, the Lord is our Lawgiver, the Lord is our King. He will save us.
- Jeremiah 10:10But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at his wrath, and the nations cannot endure his fury.
- Lamentations 5:19You, Lord, are enthroned forever; your throne endures from generation to generation.
- Daniel 4:34But at the end of those days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity returned to me. Then I praised the Most High and honored and glorified him who lives forever: For his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation.
- Daniel 6:26I issue a decree that in all my royal dominion, people must tremble in fear before the God of Daniel: For he is the living God, and he endures forever; his kingdom will never be destroyed, and his dominion has no end.
- 1 Timothy 1:17Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
- 1 Timothy 6:15God will bring this about in his own time. He is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings, and the Lord of lords,
- Psalms 9:5You have rebuked the nations: You have destroyed the wicked; you have erased their name forever and ever.
- Psalms 18:43You have freed me from the feuds among the people; you have appointed me the head of nations; a people I had not known serve me.
- Psalms 44:2In order to plant them, you displaced the nations by your hand; in order to settle them, you brought disaster on the peoples.
- Psalms 78:55He drove out nations before them. He apportioned their inheritance by lot and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
Commentaries on Psalms 10:16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16The Lord is king for ever - He has, and ever will have, the supreme power. The heathen are perished out of his land - They are all either cut off or converted. This may refer to the Canaanites. What a mercy that we can say this of our own country! Once it was entirely heathen; now not one heathen family in the whole land.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16The Lord is King forever and ever - That is, he reigns, and he will reign forever. This is one of the instances which frequently occur in the Psalms, where, though there is a desponding spirit, or an apprehension of danger expressed in the beginning of the poem, it ends with the language of exultation and triumph. The psalmist speaks here as if what he had desired was actually accomplished, and as if the enemies that had encompassed him, and all the…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-18Verses 12-18 The psalmist speaks with astonishment, at the wickedness of the wicked, and at the patience and forbearance of God. God prepares the heart for prayer, by kindling holy desires, and strengthening our most holy faith, fixing the thoughts, and raising the affections, and then he graciously accepts the prayer. The preparation of the heart is from the Lord, and we must seek unto him for it. Let the poor, afflicted, persecuted, or tempted believer…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 16As the true and just king, God will bring the wicked to an end, as he promises (Psalm 1:6).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 16-1816-18. God reigns. The wicked, if for a time successful, shall be cut off. He hears and confirms the hearts of His suffering people (Psa 112:7), executes justice for the feeble, and represses the pride and violence of conceited, though frail, men (compare Psa 9:16).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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