New English Translation
Psalms 14:5
5They are absolutely terrified, for God defends the godly.
Psalms 14:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
- New International Version (NIV)But there they are, overwhelmed with dread, for God is present in the company of the righteous.
- English Standard Version (ESV)There they are in great terror, for God is with the generation of the righteous.
- New King James Version (NKJV)There they are in great fear, For God is with the generation of the righteous.
Context of Psalms 14:5
3Everyone rejects God; they are all morally corrupt. None of them does what is right, not even one! 4All those who behave wickedly do not understand – those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to the Lord. They are absolutely terrified, for God defends the godly. 6You want to humiliate the oppressed, even though the Lord is their shelter. 7I wish the deliverance of Israel would come from Zion! When the Lord restores the well-being of his people, may Jacob rejoice, may Israel be happy!
Read all of Psalms 14Psalms 14:5 word by word
שָׁ֤ם׀ פָּ֣חֲדוּ פָ֑חַד כִּֽי־אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים בְּד֣וֹר צַדִּֽיק׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 14:5
- Psalms 53:5They are absolutely terrified, even by things that do not normally cause fear. For God annihilates those who attack you. You are able to humiliate them because God has rejected them.
- Exodus 15:16Fear and dread will fall on them; by the greatness of your arm they will be as still as stone until your people pass by, O Lord, until the people whom you have bought pass by.
- Esther 8:7King Ahasuerus replied to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Look, I have already given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he has been hanged on the gallows because he took hostile action against the Jews.
- Proverbs 1:26so I myself will laugh when disaster strikes you, I will mock when what you dread comes,
- Proverbs 28:1The wicked person flees when there is no one pursuing, but the righteous person is as confident as a lion.
- Psalms 46:5God lives within it, it cannot be moved. God rescues it at the break of dawn.
- Isaiah 8:10Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted! Issue your orders, but they will not be executed! For God is with us!
- Isaiah 12:6Cry out and shout for joy, O citizens of Zion, for the Holy One of Israel acts mightily among you!”
- Isaiah 41:10Don’t be afraid, for I am with you! Don’t be frightened, for I am your God! I strengthen you – yes, I help you – yes, I uphold you with my saving right hand!
- Isaiah 43:1Now, this is what the Lord says, the one who created you, O Jacob, and formed you, O Israel: “Don’t be afraid, for I will protect you. I call you by name, you are mine.
- Matthew 1:23“Look! The virgin will conceive and bear a son, and they will call him Emmanuel,” which means “God with us.”
- Psalms 22:30A whole generation will serve him; they will tell the next generation about the sovereign Lord.
- Psalms 24:6Such purity characterizes the people who seek his favor, Jacob’s descendants, who pray to him. (Selah)
- Psalms 73:15If I had publicized these thoughts, I would have betrayed your loyal followers.
- Psalms 112:2His descendants will be powerful on the earth; the godly will be blessed.
- 1 Peter 2:9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Commentaries on Psalms 14:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5There were they in great fear - This is a manifest allusion to the history of the Canaanitish nations; they were struck with terror at the sight of the Israelites, and by this allusion the psalmist shows that a destruction similar to that which fell upon them, should fall on the Babylonians. Several of the versions add, from Psalm 53:5, "Where no fear was." They were struck with terror, where no real cause of terror existed. Their fears had magnified…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5There were they in great fear - Margin, as in Hebrew, “they feared a fear.” The idea is, that they were in great terror or consternation. They were not calm in their belief that there was no God. They endeavored to be. They wished to satisfy themselves that there was no God, and that they had nothing to dread. But they could not do this. In spite of all their efforts, there was such proof of his existence, and of his being the friend of the righteous, and…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5Though the wicked perish (Psalm 1:5–6), God is with the righteous.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4-64-6. Their conduct evinces indifference rather than ignorance of God; for when He appears in judgment, they are stricken with great fear. who eat up my people--to express their beastly fury (Pr 30:14; Ha 3:14). To "call on the Lord" is to worship Him.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 14
- 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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