Psalms 89:23
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
American King James Version (AKJV)
And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
American Standard Version (ASV)
And I will beat down his adversaries before him, And smite them that hate him.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
I will have those who are against him broken before his face, and his haters will be crushed under my blows.
Webster's Revision
And I will beat down his foes before his face, and afflict them that hate him.
World English Bible
I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.
English Revised Version (ERV)
And I will beat down his adversaries before him, and smite them that hate him.
Barnes's Psalms 89:23 Bible Commentary
And I will beat down his foes before his face - I will crush them, or destroy them: showing that the power of doing this was not his own, but was the power of God exerted in his behalf.
And plague them that hate him - His enemies. I will bring "plagues" upon them: calamities, judgments, afflictions. The word is commonly used to denote those judgments which come directly from the hand of God - as famine, pestilence, wasting sickness, the plague, or the "plagues" of Egypt. Exodus 12:13; Exodus 30:12; Numbers 8:19; Numbers 17:11-12. These are all in the hand of God, and can be employed at his pleasure, as storms and tempests may be, in executing his purposes.