Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
You have also given me the neck of my enemies; so that I might destroy those who hate me.
New American Standard Bible
And I
King James Version
Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
Holman Bible
I annihilate those who hate me.
International Standard Version
You have made my enemies turn their back to me, and I will destroy those who hate me.
A Conservative Version
Thou have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
American Standard Version
Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto me, That I might cut off them that hate me.
Amplified
You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me [in defeat],
And I silenced and destroyed those who hated me.
Bible in Basic English
By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.
Darby Translation
And mine enemies didst thou make to turn their backs unto me, and those that hated me I destroyed.
Julia Smith Translation
Mine enemies thou gavest the back of the neck to me, and I shall destroy those hating me.
King James 2000
You have also given me the necks of my enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And you {made my enemies turn their backs}, then I destroyed those [who] hated me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou hast made mine enemies also to turn their backs upon me, and I shall destroy them that hate me. {TYNDALE: And thou madest mine enemies to turn their backs to me, and them that hated me, and I destroyed them.}
NET Bible
You make my enemies retreat; I destroy those who hate me.
New Heart English Bible
You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
The Emphasized Bible
As for my foes, thou didst give me their neck, and, as for them who hated me, I destroyed them.
Webster
Thou hast also given me the necks of my enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
World English Bible
You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
Youngs Literal Translation
As to mine enemies -- Thou hast given to me the neck, As to those hating me -- I cut them off.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 18:40
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise For Deliverance
39 For You have girded me with strength for the battle; You have humbled under me those who rose up against me. 40 You have also given me the neck of my enemies; so that I might destroy those who hate me. 41 They cried, but there was none to save; even to Jehovah, but He did not answer them.
Cross References
Psalm 21:12
For You shall make them turn the back; You shall make ready Your arrows on Your strings against their faces.
Psalm 94:23
And He will bring on them their own iniquity, and He will cut them off in their evil. Jehovah our God shall cut them off.