Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies. 12 Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty. 13 I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.
Cross References
Psalm 35:11
Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don't know about.
Acts 9:1
But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,
Matthew 26:59-60
Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;
Exodus 20:16
"You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
1 Samuel 22:9-10
Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, "I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
1 Samuel 26:19
Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out this day that I shouldn't cling to Yahweh's inheritance, saying, 'Go, serve other gods!'
2 Samuel 16:7-8
Shimei said when he cursed, "Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and base fellow!
Psalm 25:19
Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.
Psalm 31:8
You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.
Psalm 35:25
Don't let them say in their heart, "Aha! That's the way we want it!" Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up!"
Psalm 38:16
For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."
Psalm 41:2
Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.
Psalm 41:11
By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn't triumph over me.
Psalm 140:8
Yahweh, don't grant the desires of the wicked. Don't let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud. Selah.
Acts 6:11-13
Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God."
Acts 26:11
Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.