Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Thou wilt not give me to the soul of him pressing me, for witnesses of falsehood rose up against me, and violence will blow.
New American Standard Bible
For
And such as
King James Version
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
Holman Bible
for false witnesses rise up against me,
breathing violence.
International Standard Version
Do not hand me over to the desires of my enemies; for false witnesses have risen up against me; even the one who breathes out violence.
A Conservative Version
Deliver me not over to the will of my adversaries. For FALSE witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
American Standard Version
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine adversaries: For false witnesses are risen up against me, And such as breathe out cruelty.
Amplified
Do not give me up to the will of my adversaries,
For false witnesses have come against me;
They breathe out violence.
Bible in Basic English
Do not give me into their hands, because false witnesses have come out against me, and men breathing destruction.
Darby Translation
Deliver me not over to the will of mine adversaries; for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out violence.
King James 2000
Deliver me not over unto the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do not give me over to the desire of my enemies, because false witnesses have arisen against me, and [each] breathing out violence.
Modern King James verseion
Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies; for false witnesses have risen up against me, and he that breathes out cruelty.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Deliver me not over into the will of mine adversaries; for there are false witnesses risen up against me, and such as imagine mischief.
NET Bible
Do not turn me over to my enemies, for false witnesses who want to destroy me testify against me.
New Heart English Bible
Do not deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
The Emphasized Bible
Do not give me up unto the desire of mine adversaries, for there have risen up against me witnesses that are false, and he that fanneth up violence.
Webster
Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies: for false witnesses have risen against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
World English Bible
Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
Youngs Literal Translation
Give me not to the will of my adversaries, For risen against me have false witnesses, And they breathe out violence to me.
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 27:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
My Stronghold
11 Teach me, O Jehovah, thy way, and lead me in a path of straitness for sake of those pressing me. 12 Thou wilt not give me to the soul of him pressing me, for witnesses of falsehood rose up against me, and violence will blow. 13 Unless I believed to look upon the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living.
Cross References
Psalm 35:11
Witnesses of wrong will rise up; they will ask me what I knew not.
Acts 9:1
And Saul, yet breathing out threatening and murder against the disciples of the Lord, having come to the chief priest,
Matthew 26:59-60
And the chief priests, and the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put him to death;
Exodus 20:16
Thou shalt not testify against thy friend for falsehood.
1 Samuel 22:9-10
And Doeg the Edomite will answer, and he being set over the servants of Saul, and he will say, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob to Ahimelech, son of Ahitub.
1 Samuel 26:19
And now will my lord the king hear now the words of his servant? If Jehovah moved thee against me, he will smell a gift; and if the sons of man, cursed are they before Jehovah; for they drove me out this day from adjoining myself to the inheritance of Jehovah, saying. Go, serve other gods.
2 Samuel 16:7-8
And thus said Shimei in his cursing, Come forth, come forth, thou man of bloods and man of
Psalm 25:19
See mine enemies, for they were many, and they hated me with the hatred of violence.
Psalm 31:8
And thou didst not shut me up in the hand of the enemy: thou didst cause my feet to stand in a broad place.
Psalm 35:25
They shall not say in their heart, Aha! our soul. They shall not say, We swallowed him down.
Psalm 38:16
For, for thee, O Jehovah, I waited: thou wilt answer, O Jehovah my God.
Psalm 41:2
Jehovah will watch him and preserve him alive; he shall be happy upon the earth, and thou wilt not give him to the soul of his enemies.
Psalm 41:11
By this I knew that thou didst delight in me, for mine enemy will not shout over me.
Psalm 140:8
Thou wilt not give, O Jehovah, the desires of the unjust one: thou wilt not bring forth his device; they will be lifted up. Silence.
Acts 6:11-13
Then they put under men, saying, That we have heard him speaking defaming words against Moses, and God.
Acts 26:11
And in all the synagogues, many times punishing them, I compelled to blaspheme; and being exceedingly enraged against them, I drove out even also to cities without.