Psalms 63:10

8 My soul clings to You; Your right hand upholds me.

9 But those who seek my life to destroy it will go into the depths of the earth.

They will fall to the power of the sword; they will become a portion for foxes.

11 But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by Him will exult, for the mouths of liars will be shut.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
They will fall to the power of the sword; they will become a portion for foxes.
KJV
They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
WEB
They shall be given over to the power of the sword. They shall be jackal food.
ASV
They shall be given over to the power of the sword: They shall be a portion for foxes.
DARBY
They shall be given over to the power of the sword; they shall be the portion of foxes.
BLB
They will fall by the hand of the sword; they will become a portion for foxes.
ÅB
De skal gis sverdet i vold, bli til rov for rever.
OTB
De skal bli overgitt til sverdets makt;
De skal bli til rov for rever.
B1930
De skal gis sverdet i vold, bli til rov for rever.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Jeremiah 18:21

    Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

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  • Ezekiel 39:4

    On the mountains of Israel you will fall—you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to every kind of ravenous bird and wild beast.

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  • Ezekiel 35:5

    Because you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster at the final stage of their punishment,

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  • 1 Samuel 26:10

    David added, “As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.

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  • Ezekiel 39:17–20

    And as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Call out to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great feast on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood.

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  • 1 Samuel 31:1–6

    Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa.

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  • Song of Solomon 2:15

    Catch for us the foxes— the little foxes that ruin the vineyards— for our vineyards are in bloom.

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  • Revelation 19:17–18

    Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice to all the birds flying overhead, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God,

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