Psalm 68:21 {67:22}
Good News Translation
God will surely break the heads of his enemies, of those who persist in their sinful ways.

New Revised Standard Version
But God will shatter the heads of his enemies, the hairy crown of those who walk in their guilty ways.

Contemporary English Version
Our Lord and our God, your terrible enemies are ready for war, but you will crush their skulls.

New American Bible
God will crush the heads of his enemies, the hairy scalp of the one who walks in sin.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But God shall break the heads of his enemies: the hairy crown of them that walk on in their sins.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But God shall break the heads of his enemies: the hairy crown of them that walk on in their sins.

God

Psalm 110:6 He shall judge among nations, he shall fill ruins: he shall crush the heads in the land of many.

Habakkuk 3:13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people: for salvation with thy Christ. Thou struckest the head of the house of the wicked: thou hast laid bare his foundation even to the neck.

Mark 12:4 And again he sent to them another servant: and him they wounded in the head and used him reproachfully.

the hairy

Psalm 55:23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee, O Lord.

of such

Psalm 68:18 Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive; thou hast received gifts in men. Yea for those also that do not believe, the dwelling of the Lord God.

Psalm 7:12 Except you will be converted, he will brandish his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

Proverbs 1:24 You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.

Ezekiel 18:27-30 And when the wicked turneth himself away from his wickedness, which he hath wrought, and doeth judgment, and justice: he shall save his soul alive. . . .

Luke 13:5 No, I say to you: but except you do penance, you shall all likewise perish.

Hebrews 2:1-3 Therefore ought we more diligently to observe the things which we have heard lest perhaps we should let them slip. . . .

Hebrews 12:25 See that you refuse him not that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke upon earth, much more shall not we that turn away from him that speaketh to us from heaven.

Revelation 2:14-16 But I have against thee a few things: because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat and to commit fornication. . . .

Context
God's Enemies Are Scattered
20Our God is the God of salvation: and of the Lord, of the Lord are the issues from death. 21But God shall break the heads of his enemies: the hairy crown of them that walk on in their sins.22The Lord said: I will turn them from Basan, I will turn them into the depth of the sea:…
Cross References
Psalm 110:6
He shall judge among nations, he shall fill ruins: he shall crush the heads in the land of many.

Amos 9:1
They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say: Thy God, O Dan, liveth: and the way of Bersabee liveth: and they shall fall, and shall rise no more.

Habakkuk 3:13
Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people: for salvation with thy Christ. Thou struckest the head of the house of the wicked: thou hast laid bare his foundation even to the neck.

Psalm 68:20
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