Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

They have compassed me about like wax bees, they have blazed up like the fire of thorns, In the Name of Yahweh, surely I will make them be circumcised.

New American Standard Bible

They surrounded me like bees;
They were extinguished as a fire of thorns;
In the name of the Lord I will surely cut them off.

King James Version

They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

Holman Bible

They surrounded me like bees;
they were extinguished like a fire among thorns;
in the name of Yahweh I destroyed them.

International Standard Version

They surrounded me like bees; but they will be extinguished like burning thorns. In the name of the LORD I will defeat them.

A Conservative Version

They encompassed me around like bees. They are quenched as the fire of thorns. In the name of LORD I will cut them off.

American Standard Version

They compassed me about like bees; They are quenched as the fire of thorns: In the name of Jehovah I will cut them off.

Amplified


They swarmed around me like bees;
They flare up and are extinguished like a fire of thorns;
In the name of the Lord I will surely cut them off.

Bible in Basic English

They are round me like bees; but they are put out like a fire among thorns; for in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

Darby Translation

They encompassed me like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of Jehovah have I destroyed them.

Julia Smith Translation

They surrounded me as bees; they were quenched as the fire of thorns: in the name of Jehovah for I will destroy them.

King James 2000

They encompassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

Lexham Expanded Bible

They surrounded me like bees; they were extinguished like a fire of thorns. In the name of Yahweh I opposed them indeed.

Modern King James verseion

They surround me like bees; they are put out like the fire of thorns; for in the name of Jehovah I will cut them off.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

They came about me like bees, and are extinguished even as the fire among the thorns; for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

NET Bible

They surrounded me like bees. But they disappeared as quickly as a fire among thorns. Indeed, in the name of the Lord I pushed them away.

New Heart English Bible

They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the name of the LORD I cut them off.

Webster

They encompassed me like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

World English Bible

They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the name of Yahweh I cut them off.

Youngs Literal Translation

They compassed me about as bees, They have been extinguished as a fire of thorns, In the name of Jehovah I surely cut them off.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
דּברה דּבורה 
D@bowrah 
bee
Usage: 4

דּעך 
Da`ak 
Usage: 9

as the fire
אשׁ 
'esh 
Usage: 378

of thorns
קץ קוץ 
Qowts 
Usage: 12

for in the name
שׁם 
Shem 
Usage: 865

of the Lord

Usage: 0

I will destroy
מוּל 
Muwl 
Usage: 37

References

Easton

Bee

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Bee

Smith

Bee

Watsons

Context Readings

Praise To God For His Loyal Love

11 They have compassed me about - yea compassed me about, In the Name of Yahweh, surely I will make them be circumcised; 12 They have compassed me about like wax bees, they have blazed up like the fire of thorns, In the Name of Yahweh, surely I will make them be circumcised. 13 Thou didst, thrust sore, at me that I might fall, But, Yahweh, hath helped me.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:44

Then came forth the Amorites who were dwelling in that country, to meet you, and they chased you, as do, bees; and struck you down in Seir, as far as Hormah.

Psalm 58:9

Before your kettles can perceive the kindled bramble, Be he green or be he withered, he shall be swept away.

Nahum 1:10

Though they were like thorns intertwined, and as drunkards drenched with their drink, yet have they been devoured, like stubble fully dry.

1 Samuel 17:45

Then said David unto the Philistine - Thou, art coming unto me with sword, and with spear, and with javelin, - but, I, am coming unto thee in the name of Yahweh of hosts, God of the ranks of Israel which thou hast reproached.

2 Samuel 23:6

But, as for the abandoned, like thorns to be tossed away are they all, - For, not with the hand, can they be taken;

1 Chronicles 14:10-11

Then David asked of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? and wilt thou deliver them into my hand? And Yahweh said to him, Go up, and I will deliver them into thy hand.

1 Chronicles 14:14-16

So David, asked again, of God, and God said to him, Thou shalt not go up after them, - get thee round, away from them, so shalt thou come in upon them, over against the mulberry-trees;

2 Chronicles 14:11-12

Then Asa cried out unto Yahweh his God, and said, O Yahweh, it is, nothing with thee, to help whether with many or with such as have no strength. Help us, O Yahweh our God, for, on thee, do we lean, and, in thy name, have we come against this multitude, - O Yahweh! our God, thou art, let not, weak man, have power against thee.

2 Chronicles 16:7-9

And, at that time, came Hanani the seer, unto Asa the king of Judah, - and said unto him, Because thou hast leaned upon the king of Syria, and hast not leaned upon Yahweh thy God, for this cause, hath the force of the king of Syria escaped out of thy hand.

2 Chronicles 20:17-22

It is not, for you, to fight in this matter, - take your station, stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh with you, O Judah and Jerusalem, do not fear, nor be dismayed, to-morrow, go ye out to meet them, and, Yahweh, will be with you.

2 Chronicles 22:7-8

But, from God, came the downfall of Azariah, through his coming to Joram, - and because, through his coming, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.

Psalm 8:9

O Yahweh, our Lord! How majestic is thy Name, in all the earth.

Psalm 20:1

Yahweh answer thee, in the day of distress, The Name of the God of Jacob give thee safety;

Psalm 20:5

We will shout aloud in thy salvation, and, in the Name of our God, shall we become great, Yahweh fulfil all thy petitions.

Psalm 83:14-15

As a fire burneth a forest, - And as a flame setteth mountains ablaze,

Ecclesiastes 7:6

For, as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so, is the laughter of the dullard, - even this, then, was vanity.

Isaiah 27:4

Fury, have I none, - Oh that there were delivered to me briars and thorns, in battle! I would march in among them I would set fire to them one and all.

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