Psalms 76:4
2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
3 There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.
5 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.
6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You are resplendent with light, more majestic than mountains filled with game.
- KJV
- Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.
- WEB
- Glorious are you, and excellent, more than mountains of game.
- ASV
- Glorious art thou [and] excellent, From the mountains of prey.
- DARBY
- More glorious art thou, more excellent, than the mountains of prey.
- BLB
- luminous are You and majestic, from the mountains of prey.
- ÅB
- Strålende er du, herlig fremfor røverfjellene[^1].
- OTB
- Du er strålende,
Mer majestetisk enn fjellene fulle av bytte. - B1930
- Strålende er du, herlig fremfor røverfjellene. / < d.e. de rovgjerrige verdensriker.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 19:1–4
Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
Read in contextDaniel 7:17–28
These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.
Read in contextJeremiah 4:7
The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
Read in contextEzekiel 19:6
And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
Read in contextDaniel 7:4–8
The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.
Read in contextEzekiel 38:12–13
To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
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