Psalms 18:45
Foreigners lose heart and come trembling from their strongholds.
BSB
ASV
The foreigners shall fade away, And shall come trembling out of their close places.
KJV
The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.
The strangers shall fade away,.... Like the leaves of trees in autumn, when they fall and perish; to which hypocrites and nominal professors are compared, Jud 1:12; and be afraid out of their close places; their towers and fortified places, or the rocks and mountains to which they betake themselves for shelter; but, as not thinking themselves safe enough, through fear and dread, come out of them; see Mic 7:
The strangers shall fade away - Hebrew, “The sons of the stranger.” That is, foreigners. The word rendered fade away - נבל nâbêl - means properly to wilt, wither, fall away, as applicable to flowers, leaves, or plants, Psa 1:3; Psa 37:2; Isa 1:30; Isa 28:1. Here it means that those foreign nations would diminish in numbers and in power, until they should wholly disappear. The idea is, that all his foes would vanish, and that he and his kingdom would be left in peace.
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Revelation 6:16And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.
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At that time ‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’
The high places of Aven will be destroyed—it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall…
At once I was in the Spirit, and I saw a throne standing in heaven, with someone seated on it.
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James 1:11For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.
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The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.
I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,
Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.
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Micah 7:17They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will crawl from their holes in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of…
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Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD;…
May the nomads bow before him, and his enemies lick the dust.