Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
For strangers have risen up against me And terrible ones have sought my soul, They have not set God before them. Selah.
New American Standard Bible
And
They have
King James Version
For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
Holman Bible
and violent men seek my life.
They have no regard for God.
International Standard Version
For the arrogant have arisen against me; oppressors have sought to take my life. They do not keep God in mind! Interlude
A Conservative Version
For strangers are risen up against me, and violent men have sought after my soul. They have not set God before them. Selah.
American Standard Version
For strangers are risen up against me, And violent men have sought after my soul: They have not set God before them. Selah
Amplified
For strangers have risen against me
And violent men have sought my life;
They have not set God before them. Selah.
Bible in Basic English
For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. (Selah.)
Darby Translation
For strangers are risen up against me, and the violent seek after my life: they have not set God before them. Selah.
Julia Smith Translation
For strangers rose up against me, and the powerful sought out my soul: they set not God before them. Silence.
King James 2000
For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For foreigners have risen against me, and ruthless [men] seek my life. They have not set God before them. Selah
Modern King James verseion
For strangers have risen up against me, and cruel men seek after my soul; they have not set God before them. Selah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For strangers are risen up against me; and tyrants, which have not God before their eyes, seek after my soul. Selah.
NET Bible
For foreigners attack me; ruthless men, who do not respect God, seek my life. (Selah)
New Heart English Bible
For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.
The Emphasized Bible
For, aliens, have risen up against me, And, men of violence, have sought my life, They have not set God before them. Selah.
Webster
For strangers have risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
World English Bible
For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 54:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer For Deliverance
2 O God, hear my prayer, Give ear to the sayings of my mouth, 3 For strangers have risen up against me And terrible ones have sought my soul, They have not set God before them. Selah. 4 Lo, God is a helper to me, The Lord is with those supporting my soul,
Cross References
Psalm 86:14
O God, the proud have risen up against me, And a company of the terrible sought my soul, And have not placed Thee before them,
Psalm 36:1
To the Overseer. -- By a servant of Jehovah, by David. The transgression of the wicked Is affirming within my heart, 'Fear of God is not before his eyes,
Job 19:13-15
My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me.
Psalm 16:8
I did place Jehovah before me continually, Because -- at my right hand I am not moved.
Psalm 22:16
And to the dust of death thou appointest me, For surrounded me have dogs, A company of evil doers have compassed me, Piercing my hands and my feet.
Psalm 40:14
They are ashamed and confounded together, Who are seeking my soul to destroy it, They are turned backward, And are ashamed, who are desiring my evil.
Psalm 53:4
Have not workers of iniquity known, Those eating my people have eaten bread, God they have not called.
Psalm 59:3-5
For, lo, they laid wait for my soul, Assembled against me are strong ones, Not my transgression nor my sin, O Jehovah.
Psalm 69:8
A stranger I have been to my brother, And a foreigner to sons of my mother.
Matthew 27:20-23
And the chief priests and the elders did persuade the multitudes that they might ask for themselves Barabbas, and might destroy Jesus;
John 16:3
and these things they will do to you, because they did not know the Father, nor me.