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Who Can Stand Before You?

To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song.

 In Judah God is known;
   his name is great in Israel.
² His abode has been established in Salem,
   his dwelling place in Zion.
³ There he broke the flashing arrows,
   the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah

⁴ Glorious are you, more majestic
than the mountains full of prey.
⁵ The stouthearted were stripped of their spoil;
they sank into sleep;
all the men of war
were unable to use their hands.
⁶ At your rebuke, O God of Jacob,
both rider and horse lay stunned.

⁷ But you, you are to be feared!
Who can stand before you
when once your anger is roused?
⁸ From the heavens you uttered judgment;
the earth feared and was still,
⁹ when God arose to establish judgment,
to save all the humble of the earth. Selah

¹⁰ Surely the wrath of man shall praise you;
the remnant^[a] of wrath you will put on like a belt.
¹¹ Make your vows to the Lord your God and perform them;
let all around him bring gifts
to him who is to be feared,
¹² who cuts off the spirit of princes,
who is to be feared by the kings of the earth.

Footnotes:

1. Psalm 76:10 Or extremity

Cross references:

1. Psalm 76:1 : Ps. 4, title
2. Psalm 76:1 : See Ps. 50, title
3. Psalm 76:1 : Ps. 48:3
4. Psalm 76:2 : Ps. 27:5; Lam. 2:6
5. Psalm 76:2 : Gen. 14:18
6. Psalm 76:2 : Ps. 9:11; 74:2
7. Psalm 76:3 : Ps. 46:9; [Ezek. 39:9]
8. Psalm 76:4 : [Isa. 14:25; Ezek. 39:4]
9. Psalm 76:4 : Nah. 2:13
10. Psalm 76:5 : Isa. 46:12
11. Psalm 76:5 : Ps. 13:3; 2 Kgs. 19:35; Jer. 51:39; Nah. 3:18
12. Psalm 76:6 : Ex. 15:1, 21
13. Psalm 76:7 : Ps. 47:2
14. Psalm 76:7 : Ps. 130:3
15. Psalm 76:8 : 2 Chr. 20:29, 30; [Hab. 2:20]
16. Psalm 76:9 : [Ps. 9:7, 8]
17. Psalm 76:10 : [Ex. 9:16]
18. Psalm 76:11 : See Ps. 50:14
19. Psalm 76:11 : See Ps. 68:29
20. Psalm 76:11 : Ps. 89:7; Gen. 31:42, 53; Isa. 8:13
21. Psalm 76:12 : [Isa. 18:5]
22. Psalm 76:12 : See Ps. 47:2