May desert tribes (A)bow down before him,
    and his enemies (B)lick the dust!

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17 (A)they shall lick the dust like a serpent,
    like the crawling things of the earth;
(B)they shall come trembling out of their strongholds;
    (C)they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God,
    and they shall be in fear of you.

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23 (A)Kings shall be your foster fathers,
    and their queens your nursing mothers.
(B)With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you,
    and (C)lick the dust of your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord;
    (D)those who wait for me (E)shall not be put to shame.”

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27 But (A)as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and (B)slaughter them before me.’”

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The Ransomed Shall Return

35 (A)The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad;
    (B)the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus;
it shall blossom abundantly
    and rejoice with joy and singing.
(C)The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it,
    the majesty of (D)Carmel and (E)Sharon.
(F)They shall see the glory of the Lord,
    the majesty of our God.

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He will (A)execute judgment among the nations,
    (B)filling them with corpses;
he will (C)shatter chiefs[a]
    over the wide earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 110:6 Or the head

29 All (A)the prosperous of the earth eat and worship;
    before him shall (B)bow all who go down to the dust,
    even the one who could not (C)keep himself alive.

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Your hand will (A)find out all your enemies;
    your right hand will find out those who hate you.
You will make them as (B)a blazing oven
    when you appear.
The Lord will swallow them up in his (C)wrath,
    and (D)fire will consume them.

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You shall (A)break[a] them with (B)a rod of iron
    and dash them in pieces like (C)a potter's vessel.”

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 2:9 Revocalization yields (compare Septuagint) You shall rule

20 All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel— 21 (A)their descendants who were left after them in the land, (B)whom the people of Israel were unable to devote to destruction[a](C)these Solomon drafted to be (D)slaves, and so they are to this day.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 9:21 That is, set apart (devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)

18 and Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 9:18 Hebrew lacks of Judah

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