Psalm 68:23 {67:24}
Good News Translation
so that you may wade in their blood, and your dogs may lap up as much as they want."

New Revised Standard Version
so that you may bathe your feet in blood, so that the tongues of your dogs may have their share from the foe.”

Contemporary English Version
Then we could wash our feet in their blood, and our dogs could chew on their bones.

New American Bible
You will wash your feet in your enemy’s blood; the tongues of your dogs will lap it up.”

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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

That

Psalm 58:10 The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.

dipped [heb.

Isaiah 63:1-6 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bosra, this beautiful one in his robe, walking in the greatness of his strength. I, that speak justice, and am a defender to save. . . .

the tongue

1 Kings 21:19 And thou shalt speak to him, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Thou hast slain: moreover also thou hast taken possession. And after these words thou shalt add: Thus saith the Lord: In this place, wherein the dogs have licked the blood of Naboth, they shall lick thy blood also.

1 Kings 22:38 And they washed his chariot in the pool of Samaria and the dogs licked up his blood, and they washed the reins according to the word of the Lord which he had spoken.

2 Kings 9:33-37 And he said to them: Throw her down headlong; And they threw her down, and the wall was sprinkled with her blood, and the hoofs of the horses trod upon her. . . .

Revelation 19:17-21 And I saw an angel standing in the sun: and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that did fly through the midst of heaven: Come, gather yourselves together to the great supper of God: . . .

Context
God's Enemies Are Scattered
22The Lord said: I will turn them from Basan, I will turn them into the depth of the sea: 23That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thy enemies; the tongue of thy dogs be red with the same.24They have seen thy goings, O God, the goings of my God: of my king who is in his sanctuary.…
Cross References
1 Kings 21:19
And thou shalt speak to him, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Thou hast slain: moreover also thou hast taken possession. And after these words thou shalt add: Thus saith the Lord: In this place, wherein the dogs have licked the blood of Naboth, they shall lick thy blood also.

Psalm 58:10
The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.

Jeremiah 15:3
And I will visit them with four kinds, saith the Lord: The sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and to destroy.

Psalm 68:22
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