Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

The counsel of the poor ye cause to stink, Because Jehovah is his refuge.

New American Standard Bible

You would put to shame the counsel of the afflicted,
But the Lord is his refuge.

King James Version

Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

Holman Bible

You sinners frustrate the plans of the afflicted,
but the Lord is his refuge.

International Standard Version

You would frustrate the plans of the oppressed, but the LORD is their refuge.

A Conservative Version

Ye put to shame the counsel of the poor because LORD is his refuge.

American Standard Version

Ye put to shame the counsel of the poor, Because Jehovah is his refuge.

Amplified


You [evildoers] shamefully plan against the poor,
But the Lord is his safe refuge.

Bible in Basic English

You have put to shame the thoughts of the poor, but the Lord is his support.

Darby Translation

Ye have shamed the counsel of the afflicted, because Jehovah was his refuge.

Julia Smith Translation

Ye will shame the counsel of the poor, for Jehovah is his refuge.

King James 2000

You have shamed the counsel of the poor, but the LORD is his refuge.

Lexham Expanded Bible

You would put to shame [the] plan of [the] poor, because Yahweh [is] his refuge.

Modern King James verseion

You have shamed the counsel of the poor, because Jehovah is his refuge.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

As for you, ye have made a mock at the counsel of the poor, because he putteth his trust in the LORD.

NET Bible

You want to humiliate the oppressed, even though the Lord is their shelter.

New Heart English Bible

You would frustrate the plans of the lowly, but the LORD is his refuge.

The Emphasized Bible

The purpose of the poor, ye would put to shame, because, Yahweh, is his refuge.

Webster

Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

World English Bible

You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

Context Readings

A Portrait Of Sinners

5 There they have feared a fear, For God is in the generation of the righteous. 6 The counsel of the poor ye cause to stink, Because Jehovah is his refuge. 7 Who doth give from Zion the salvation of Israel? When Jehovah doth turn back To a captivity of His people, Jacob doth rejoice -- Israel is glad!


Cross References

Psalm 9:9

And Jehovah is a tower for the bruised, A tower for times of adversity.

Nehemiah 4:2-4

and saith before his brethren and the force of Samaria, yea, he saith, 'What are the weak Jews doing? are they left to themselves? do they sacrifice? do they complete in a day? do they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish? -- and they burnt!'

Psalm 3:2

Many are saying of my soul, 'There is no salvation for him in God.' Selah.

Psalm 4:2

Sons of men! till when is my glory for shame? Ye love a vain thing, ye seek a lie. Selah.

Psalm 22:7-8

All beholding me do mock at me, They make free with the lip -- shake the head,

Psalm 40:17

And I am poor and needy, The Lord doth devise for me. My help and my deliverer art Thou, O my God, tarry Thou not.

Psalm 42:10

With a sword in my bones Have mine adversaries reproached me, In their saying unto me all the day, 'Where is thy God?'

Psalm 46:1

To the Overseer. -- By sons of Korah. 'For the Virgins.' -- A song. God is to us a refuge and strength, A help in adversities found most surely.

Psalm 142:5

I have cried unto thee, O Jehovah, I have said, 'Thou art my refuge, My portion in the land of the living.'

Isaiah 37:10-11

'Thus do ye speak unto Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God lift thee up in whom thou art trusting, saying, Jerusalem is not given into the hand of the king of Asshur.

Ezekiel 35:10

Because of thy saying: The two nations and the two lands are mine, and we have possessed it, And Jehovah hath been there;

Daniel 3:15

Now, lo, ye are ready, so that at the time that ye hear the voice of the cornet, the flute, the harp, the sackbut, the psaltery, and the symphony, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and do obeisance to the image that I have made! -- and lo, ye do no obeisance -- in that hour ye are cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; who is that God who doth deliver you out of my hands?'

Matthew 27:40-43

and saying, 'Thou that art throwing down the sanctuary, and in three days building it, save thyself; if Son thou art of God, come down from the cross.'

Hebrews 6:18

that through two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,

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