Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Meet him doth desolation -- he knoweth not, And his net that he hid catcheth him, For desolation he falleth into it.
New American Standard Bible
And
Into that very
King James Version
Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
Holman Bible
and let the net that he hid ensnare him;
let him fall into it—to his ruin.
International Standard Version
Let destruction come upon them unawares, and let the net that he hid catch him; let him fall into destruction.
A Conservative Version
Let destruction come upon him unawares, and let his net that he has hid catch himself. Let him fall in it with destruction.
American Standard Version
Let destruction come upon him unawares; And let his net that he hath hid catch himself: With destruction let him fall therein.
Amplified
Let destruction come upon my enemy by surprise;
Let the net he hid for me catch him;
Into that very destruction let him fall.
Bible in Basic English
Let destruction come on them without their knowledge; let them be taken themselves in their secret nets, falling into the same destruction.
Darby Translation
Let destruction come upon him unawares, and let his net which he hath hidden catch himself: for destruction let him fall therein.
Julia Smith Translation
Desolation shall come to him not knowing, and his net which he hid shall take him: in destruction he shall fall in it
King James 2000
Let destruction come upon him unawares; and let his net that he has hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Let {unforeseen ruin} come on him, and his net that he hid, let it catch him. Let him fall into it in ruin.
Modern King James verseion
Let destruction come upon him, he will not know; and let his net which he has concealed catch him, let him fall in it, into destruction.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let a sudden destruction come upon him unawares, and his net that he hath laid privily catch himself, that he may fall into his own mischief.
NET Bible
Let destruction take them by surprise! Let the net they hid catch them! Let them fall into destruction!
New Heart English Bible
Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.
The Emphasized Bible
There shall reach him a ruin he could not know, - Yea, his own net which he hath hidden, shall capture him, Into that ruin, shall he fall!
Webster
Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
World English Bible
Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 35:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer For Victory
7 For without cause they hid for me their netpit, Without cause they digged for my soul. 8 Meet him doth desolation -- he knoweth not, And his net that he hid catcheth him, For desolation he falleth into it. 9 And my soul is joyful in Jehovah, It rejoiceth in His salvation.
Cross References
1 Thessalonians 5:3
for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail doth her who is with child, and they shall not escape;
1 Samuel 18:17
And Saul saith unto David, 'Lo, my elder daughter Merab -- her I give to thee for a wife; only, be to me for a son of valour, and fight the battles of Jehovah;' and Saul said, 'Let not my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.'
1 Samuel 31:2-4
and the Philistines follow Saul and his sons, and the Philistines smite Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, sons of Saul.
2 Samuel 17:2-4
and come upon him, and he weary and feeble-handed, and I have caused him to tremble, and all the people have fled who are with him, and I have smitten the king by himself,
2 Samuel 17:23
And Ahithophel hath seen that his counsel was not done, and he saddleth the ass, and riseth and goeth unto his house, unto his city, and giveth charge unto his household, and strangleth himself, and dieth, and he is buried in the burying-place of his father.
2 Samuel 18:14-15
And Joab saith, 'Not right -- I tarry before thee;' and he taketh three darts in his hand, and striketh them into the heart of Absalom, while he is alive, in the midst of the oak.
Esther 7:10
And they hang Haman upon the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king hath lain down.
Psalm 7:15-16
A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh.
Psalm 9:15
Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured.
Psalm 57:6
A net they have prepared for my steps, Bowed down hath my soul, They have digged before me a pit, They have fallen into its midst. Selah.
Psalm 64:7
And God doth shoot them with an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,
Psalm 73:18-20
Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.
Psalm 141:9-10
Keep me from the gin they laid for me, Even snares of workers of iniquity.
Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.
Proverbs 29:1
A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.
Isaiah 47:11
And come in on thee hath evil, Thou knowest not its rising, And fall on thee doth mischief, Thou art not able to pacify it, And come on thee suddenly doth desolation, Thou knowest not.
Matthew 27:3-5
Then Judas -- he who delivered him up -- having seen that he was condemned, having repented, brought back the thirty silverlings to the chief priests, and to the elders, saying,
Luke 21:34
'And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,