Psalm 68:23
◄  Psalm 68:23  ►
New International Version (©2011)
that your feet may wade in the blood of your foes, while the tongues of your dogs have their share."

New Living Translation (©2007)
You, my people, will wash your feet in their blood, and even your dogs will get their share!"

English Standard Version (©2001)
that you may strike your feet in their blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
That your foot may shatter them in blood, The tongue of your dogs may have its portion from your enemies."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
so that your foot may wade in blood and your dogs' tongues may have their share from the enemies."

International Standard Version (©2012)
that your feet may wade through blood. The tongues of your dogs will have their portions from your enemies."

NET Bible (©2006)
so that your feet may stomp in their blood, and your dogs may eat their portion of the enemies' corpses."

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
Because you will dip your foot and the tongue of your dogs in the blood of your enemies.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
so that you, [my people,] may bathe your feet in blood and the tongues of your dogs may lick the blood of your enemies."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
That your foot may be dipped in the blood of your enemies, and the tongue of your dogs in the same.

American King James Version
That your foot may be dipped in the blood of your enemies, and the tongue of your dogs in the same.

American Standard Version
That thou mayest crush them , dipping thy foot in blood, That the tongue of thy dogs may have its portion from thine enemies.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thy enemies; the tongue of thy dogs be red with the same.

Darby Bible Translation
That thou mayest dip thy foot in blood: the tongue of thy dogs has its portion from enemies.

English Revised Version
That thou mayest dip thy foot in blood, that the tongue of thy dogs may have its portion from thine enemies.

Webster's Bible Translation
That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thy enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.

World English Bible
That you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies."

Young's Literal Translation
So that thou dashest thy foot in blood, In the blood of enemies -- the tongue of Thy dogs.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

68:22-28 The victories with which God blessed David over the enemies of Israel, are types of Christ's victory, for himself and for all believers. Those who take him for theirs, may see him acting as their God, as their King, for their good, and in answer to their prayers; especially in and by his word and ordinances. The kingdom of the Messiah shall be submitted to by all the rulers and learned in the world. The people seem to address the king, ver. 28. But the words are applicable to the Redeemer, to his church, and every true believer. We pray, that thou, O God the Son, wilt complete thine undertaking for us, by finishing thy good work in us.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 23. - That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies; i.e. "I will bring them back for thee, my people, to dip your feet in their blood." The same metaphor is used in Isaiah 63:1-3; but it is God himself who, in that passage, has his feet reddened in his enemies' blood, And the tongue of thy dogs in the same. The Authorized Version has omitted one word of the original here. Translate, And that the tongue of thy dogs may have its portion from the same (comp. 2 Kings 9:35; Jeremiah 15:3).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies,.... This verse is in connection with Psalm 68:21, with Psalm 68:23 being to be read in a parenthesis: the sense is, that the Messiah would so wound the head and hairy scalp of his people's enemies, and there should be such a large effusion of blood, that their feet should be dipped therein, Revelation 14:20; See Gill on Psalm 58:10;

and the tongue of thy dogs in the same; who should lick it up, as the dogs licked the blood of Jezebel, 1 Kings 21:19; and so such a carnage will be made of antichrist and his followers, that the fowls of the heavens will be called upon to eat the flesh of kings, captains, and mighty ones, Revelation 19:17.

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Let God's Enemies Be Scattered!
…22The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea: 23That your foot may be dipped in the blood of your enemies, and the tongue of your dogs in the same. 24They have seen your goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary. …

1 Kings 21:19 Say to him, 'This is what the LORD says: Have you not murdered a man and seized his property?' Then say to him, 'This is what the LORD says: In the place where dogs licked up Naboth's blood, dogs will lick up your blood--yes, yours!'"
Psalm 58:10 The righteous will be glad when they are avenged, when they dip their feet in the blood of the wicked.
Jeremiah 15:3 "I will send four kinds of destroyers against them," declares the LORD, "the sword to kill and the dogs to drag away and the birds and the wild animals to devour and destroy.