Psalm 68:23
New International Version
that your feet may wade in the blood of your foes, while the tongues of your dogs have their share.”

New Living Translation
You, my people, will wash your feet in their blood, and even your dogs will get their share!”

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

Berean Standard Bible
that your foot may be dipped in the blood of your foes—the tongues of your dogs in the same.”

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

New King James Version
That your foot may crush them in blood, And the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies.”

New American Standard Bible
So that your foot may shatter them in blood, And the tongue of your dogs may have its portion from your enemies.”

NASB 1995
That your foot may shatter them in blood, The tongue of your dogs may have its portion from your enemies.”

NASB 1977
That your foot may shatter them in blood, The tongue of your dogs may have its portion from your enemies.”

Legacy Standard Bible
That your foot may crush them in blood, The tongue of your dogs may have its portion from your enemies.”

Amplified Bible
That your foot may crush them in blood, That the tongue of your dogs may have its share from your enemies.”

Christian Standard Bible
so that your foot may wade in blood and your dogs’ tongues may have their share from the enemies.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
so that your foot may wade in blood and your dogs’ tongues may have their share from the enemies.”

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.

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

Brenton Septuagint Translation
That thy foot may be dipped in blood, and the tongue of thy dogs be stained with that of thine enemies.

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

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.

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

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

Good News Translation
so that you may wade in their blood, and your dogs may lap up as much as they want."

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

JPS Tanakh 1917
That thy foot may wade through blood, That the tongue of thy dogs may have its portion from thine enemies.'

Literal Standard Version
So that you dash your foot | In the blood of enemies—the tongue of Your dogs.”

Majority Standard Bible
that your foot may be dipped in the blood of your foes—the tongues of your dogs in the same.”

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

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

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.”

New Heart 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."

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.'

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Context
God's Enemies Are Scattered
22The Lord said, “I will retrieve them from Bashan, I will bring them up from the depths of the sea, 23that your foot may be dipped in the blood of your foes— the tongues of your dogs in the same.” 24They have seen Your procession, O God—the march of my God and King into the sanctuary.…

Cross References
1 Kings 21:19
Tell him that this is what the LORD says: 'Have you not murdered a man and seized his land?' Then tell him that this is also what the LORD says: 'In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, there also the dogs will lick up your blood--yes, yours!'"

Psalm 58:10
The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.

Jeremiah 15:3
I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.


Treasury of Scripture

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

That

Psalm 58:10
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

dipped [heb.

Isaiah 63:1-6
Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save…

the tongue

1 Kings 21:19
And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.

1 Kings 22:38
And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake.

2 Kings 9:33-37
And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot…

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Psalm 68
1. A prayer at the removing of the ark
4. An exhortation to praise God for his mercies
7. for his care of the church
19. for his great works














(23) That thy foot.--This makes an unnecessary transposition of a very involved sentence. The image is perfectly clear, though the syntax, as often happens in all languages, goes tripping itself up. The conqueror, after wading in the blood of his enemies, is met by the dogs, who lick his gory feet. With a change of one letter we may render, "That thou mayest wash thy foot in blood--yea, the tongue of thy dogs in (the blood of) thine enemies.

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).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
that
לְמַ֤עַן ׀ (lə·ma·‘an)
Conjunction
Strong's 4616: Purpose -- intent

your foot
רַגְלְךָ֗ (raḡ·lə·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 7272: A foot, a step, the pudenda

may be dipped
תִּֽמְחַ֥ץ (tim·ḥaṣ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 4272: To dash asunder, to crush, smash, violently plunge, to subdue, destroy

in the blood
בְּ֫דָ֥ם (bə·ḏām)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1818: Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed

of [your] foes,
מֵאֹיְבִ֥ים (mê·’ō·yə·ḇîm)
Preposition-m | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 341: Hating, an adversary

the tongues
לְשׁ֥וֹן (lə·šō·wn)
Noun - common singular construct
Strong's 3956: The tongue

of your dogs
כְּלָבֶ֑יךָ (kə·lā·ḇe·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3611: A dog, a male prostitute

in [the same].”
מִנֵּֽהוּ׃ (min·nê·hū)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4480: A part of, from, out of


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