Bible verse

Psalm 68:21

Surely God will crush the heads of His enemies, the hairy crowns of those who persist in guilty ways.

Psalm 68:21 · BSB

Psalm 68:21 in context

The verses around it, from Psalm 68.

17 The chariots of God are tens of thousands—thousands of thousands are they; the Lord is in His sanctuary as He was at Sinai.

18 You have ascended on high; You have led captives away. You have received gifts from men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.

19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, the God of our salvation. Selah

20 Our God is a God of deliverance; the Lord GOD is our rescuer from death.

21 Surely God will crush the heads of His enemies, the hairy crowns of those who persist in guilty ways.

22 The Lord said, “I will retrieve them from Bashan, I will bring them up from the depths of the sea,

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

24 They have seen Your procession, O God—the march of my God and King into the sanctuary.

25 The singers lead the way, the musicians follow after, among the maidens playing tambourines.

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Psalm 68:21 in other translations

KJV

But God shall wound the head of his enemies, [and] the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.

ASV

But God will smite through the head of his enemies, The hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his guiltiness.

ERV

But God shall smite through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his guiltiness.

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