King James Version
Psalms 76:7 in the King James Version says “Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 76 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?”
Psalms 76:7 · KJV
The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.
At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?
Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,
When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Thou even thou art to be feared”
H3372to fear; morally to revere; causatively to frighten
who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
“and who may stand”
H5975to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
“in thy sight”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
“once thou art angry”
H639properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
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