Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
They were extinguished as a
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 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.
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.
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.
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
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 118:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise To God For His Loyal Love
11 They kept me in, I say, on every side; but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. 12 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. 13 They thrust at me, that I might fall; but the LORD was my help.
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:44
Then the Amorites, which dwelt in those hills, came out against you and chased you as bees do, and hewed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.
Psalm 58:9
As a green thorn kindled with fire goeth out before your pots be made hot; even so, let a furious rage bring him to nought.
Nahum 1:10
For like as the thorns that stick together, and as the dry straw, so shall the drunkards be consumed together, even when they be full.
1 Samuel 17:45
Then said David to the Philistine, "Thou comest to me with a sword, a spear, and a shield: But I come to thee in the name of the LORD of Hosts, the God of the host of Israel whom thou hast railed upon.
2 Samuel 23:6
when the unthrifty men are all of them as thorns taken out of their places, which cannot be taken with hands.
1 Chronicles 14:10-11
And David asked God, saying, "Shall I go against the Philistines and wilt thou deliver them into mine hands?" And the LORD said to him: "Go, for I will deliver them into thine hand."
1 Chronicles 14:14-16
Then David asked God, And God said to him, "Go not after them, but turn away from them, and come upon them straight from the pear trees.
2 Chronicles 14:11-12
And Asa cried unto the LORD his God and said, "LORD, it is all one with thee to help them that have no power, with few or with many: help us O LORD our God, for we trust to thee, and in thine name be come against this multitude. Thou art the LORD our God: let not man prevail against thee."
2 Chronicles 16:7-9
At that same time, Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, "Because thou trustedest in the king of Syria, and trustest not in the LORD thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand.
2 Chronicles 20:17-22
Moreover, it belongeth not to you for to fight this quarrel: but step forth and stand and behold the help of the LORD which is with you: fear not, nor let your heart fail you, O ye of Judah and of Jerusalem. Tomorrow go out to them: for the LORD is with you."
2 Chronicles 22:7-8
For it was thrust into Ahaziah of God to go to Joram, and that when he was come, he should go out with Joram against Jehu the son of Nimshi whom the LORD had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.
Psalm 8:9
O LORD our governour, how excellent is thy name in all the world!
Psalm 20:1
{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble. The name of the God of Jacob defend thee;
Psalm 20:5
We will rejoice in thy health, and triumph in the name of the LORD our God! The LORD perform all thy petitions!
Psalm 83:14-15
Like as a fire that burneth up the wood, and as the flame that consumeth the mountains.
Ecclesiastes 7:6
For the laughing of fools is like the crackling of thorns under a pot. And that is but a vain thing.
Isaiah 27:4
I hear no evil will in my mind. Who will compel me that I, greatly forgetting all faithfulness, should burn it up at once with thorns and bushes?