Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Let them be ashamed and confounded Who are seeking my soul, Let them be turned backward and blush Who are desiring my evil.
New American Standard Bible
Who seek my
Let those be turned back and dishonored
Who delight
King James Version
Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
Holman Bible
be disgraced and confounded;
let those who wish me harm
be driven back and humiliated.
International Standard Version
May those who seek to kill me be publicly humiliated. May those who take pleasure in my harm be turned back in humiliation.
A Conservative Version
Let them be put to shame and confounded who seek after my soul. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.
American Standard Version
Let them be put to shame and confounded That seek after my soul: Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor That delight in my hurt.
Amplified
Let those be ashamed and humiliated
Who seek my life;
Let them be turned back and humiliated
Who delight in my hurt.
Bible in Basic English
Let those who go after my soul have shame and trouble; let those who have evil designs against me be turned back and made foolish.
Darby Translation
Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion that seek after my soul; let them be turned backward and confounded that take pleasure in mine adversity;
Julia Smith Translation
They seeking my soul shall be confused and ashamed: they shall be turned away behind; and they desiring my evils, shall be ashamed.
King James 2000
Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Let them be ashamed and abashed who seek my life. Let them be repulsed and humiliated [who] desire my harm.
Modern King James verseion
Let them be ashamed and turned pale, those who seek after my soul; let them be turned backward and blush, those who desire my hurt.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul; let them be turned backward, and put to confusion that wish me evil.
NET Bible
May those who are trying to take my life be embarrassed and ashamed! May those who want to harm me be turned back and ashamed!
New Heart English Bible
Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.
The Emphasized Bible
Let them turn pale and then at once blush, Who are seeking my life, - Let them draw back, and be confounded, Who are taking pleasure in my misfortune;
Webster
Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
World English Bible
Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 70:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Call For Deliverance
1 To the Overseer, by David. -- 'To cause to remember.' O God, to deliver me, O Jehovah, for my help, haste. 2 Let them be ashamed and confounded Who are seeking my soul, Let them be turned backward and blush Who are desiring my evil. 3 Let them turn back because of their shame, Who are saying, 'Aha, aha.'
Cross References
Psalm 35:4
They are ashamed and blush, those seeking my soul, Turned backward and confounded, Those devising my evil.
Psalm 35:26
They are ashamed and confounded together, Who are rejoicing at my evil. They put on shame and confusion, Who are magnifying themselves against me.
Psalm 6:10
Ashamed and troubled greatly are all mine enemies, They turn back -- ashamed in a moment!
Psalm 71:13
They are ashamed, they are consumed, Who are opposing my soul, They are covered with reproach and blushing, Who are seeking my evil,
Psalm 109:29
Mine accusers put on blushing, and are covered, As an upper robe is their shame.
Isaiah 28:13
And to whom a word of Jehovah hath been, Rule on rule, rule on rule, line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there, So that they go and have stumbled backward, And been broken, and snared, and captured.
Isaiah 41:11
Lo, all those displeased with thee, They are ashamed and blush, They are as nothing, yea, perish Do the men who strive with thee.
John 18:6
when, therefore, he said to them -- 'I am he,' they went away backward, and fell to the ground.