Psalm 20:8
New International Version
They are brought to their knees and fall, but we rise up and stand firm.

New Living Translation
Those nations will fall down and collapse, but we will rise up and stand firm.

English Standard Version
They collapse and fall, but we rise and stand upright.

Berean Standard Bible
They collapse and fall, but we rise up and stand firm.

King James Bible
They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.

New King James Version
They have bowed down and fallen; But we have risen and stand upright.

New American Standard Bible
They have bowed down and fallen, But we have risen and stood upright.

NASB 1995
They have bowed down and fallen, But we have risen and stood upright.

NASB 1977
They have bowed down and fallen; But we have risen and stood upright.

Legacy Standard Bible
They have bowed down and fallen, But we have risen and stood upright.

Amplified Bible
They have bowed down and fallen, But we have risen and stood upright.

Christian Standard Bible
They collapse and fall, but we rise and stand firm.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They collapse and fall, but we rise and stand firm.

American Standard Version
They are bowed down and fallen; But we are risen, and stand upright.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
They bowed and they fell, and we stood and we are ready.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
They are overthrown and fallen: but we are risen, and have been set upright.

Contemporary English Version
Others will stumble and fall, but we will be strong and stand firm.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They are bound, and have fallen; but we are risen, and are set upright. O Lord, save the king: and hear us in the day that we shall call upon thee.

English Revised Version
They are bowed down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They will sink to their knees and fall, but we will rise and stand firm.

Good News Translation
Such people will stumble and fall, but we will rise and stand firm.

International Standard Version
While they bowed down and fell, we arose and stood upright.

JPS Tanakh 1917
They are bowed down and fallen; But we are risen, and stand upright.

Literal Standard Version
They have bowed and have fallen, | And we have risen and station ourselves upright.

Majority Standard Bible
They collapse and fall, but we rise up and stand firm.

New American Bible
They collapse and fall, but we stand strong and firm.

NET Bible
They will fall down, but we will stand firm.

New Revised Standard Version
They will collapse and fall, but we shall rise and stand upright.

New Heart English Bible
They are bowed down and fallen, but we rise up, and stand upright.

Webster's Bible Translation
They are brought down and fallen: but we are raised, and stand upright.

World English Bible
They are bowed down and fallen, but we rise up, and stand upright.

Young's Literal Translation
They -- they have bowed and have fallen, And we have risen and station ourselves upright.

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Context
The Day of Trouble
7Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God. 8They collapse and fall, but we rise up and stand firm. 9O LORD, save the king. Answer us on the day we call.…

Cross References
1 Chronicles 5:20
And because they cried out to God in battle, they were helped against their enemies, and the Hagrites and all their allies were delivered into their hands. Because they put their trust in God, He answered their prayers.

Psalm 37:24
Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, for the LORD is holding his hand.

Isaiah 2:11
The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 2:17
So the pride of man will be brought low, and the loftiness of men will be humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,

Jeremiah 50:37
A sword is against her horses and chariots and against all the foreigners in her midst, and they will become like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered.

Micah 7:8
Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.


Treasury of Scripture

They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.

They

Psalm 34:21,22
Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate…

Judges 5:31
So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

but we

Psalm 2:6-10
Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion…

Psalm 5:2
Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.

Psalm 24:7
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

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Psalm 20
1. The church blesses the King in his exploits
7. and expresses her confidence in God's helpfulness














(8) Stand upright.--We seem to see a whole battle fought before our eyes, in which those formerly struck down rise, and returning to the fight, beat off their foes, and in their turn lay them low. "We were fallen, but have risen, and stand upright."

Verse 8. - They are brought down and fallen; but we are risen, and stand upright. Confident of the result, the speaker represents it as already achieved. He sees the enemy bowed down to the earth, and fallen; he sees the host of Israel erect and triumphant. All stands out clearly before his vision, as though he were an actual spectator of the fight.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
They
הֵ֭מָּה (hêm·māh)
Pronoun - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1992: They

collapse
כָּרְע֣וּ (kā·rə·‘ū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 3766: To bend the knee, to sink, to prostrate

and fall,
וְנָפָ֑לוּ (wə·nā·p̄ā·lū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5307: To fall, lie

but we
וַאֲנַ֥חְנוּ (wa·’ă·naḥ·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - first person common plural
Strong's 587: We

rise up
קַּ֝֗מְנוּ (qam·nū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common plural
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

and stand firm.
וַנִּתְעוֹדָֽד׃ (wan·niṯ·‘ō·w·ḏāḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Consecutive imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's 5749: To duplicate, repeat, to protest, testify, to encompass, restore


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