Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Deliver me not over to the will of my adversaries. For FALSE witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
New American Standard Bible
For
And such as
King James Version
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
Holman Bible
for false witnesses rise up against me,
breathing violence.
International Standard Version
Do not hand me over to the desires of my enemies; for false witnesses have risen up against me; even the one who breathes out violence.
American Standard Version
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine adversaries: For false witnesses are risen up against me, And such as breathe out cruelty.
Amplified
Do not give me up to the will of my adversaries,
For false witnesses have come against me;
They breathe out violence.
Bible in Basic English
Do not give me into their hands, because false witnesses have come out against me, and men breathing destruction.
Darby Translation
Deliver me not over to the will of mine adversaries; for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out violence.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou wilt not give me to the soul of him pressing me, for witnesses of falsehood rose up against me, and violence will blow.
King James 2000
Deliver me not over unto the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do not give me over to the desire of my enemies, because false witnesses have arisen against me, and [each] breathing out violence.
Modern King James verseion
Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies; for false witnesses have risen up against me, and he that breathes out cruelty.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Deliver me not over into the will of mine adversaries; for there are false witnesses risen up against me, and such as imagine mischief.
NET Bible
Do not turn me over to my enemies, for false witnesses who want to destroy me testify against me.
New Heart English Bible
Do not deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
The Emphasized Bible
Do not give me up unto the desire of mine adversaries, for there have risen up against me witnesses that are false, and he that fanneth up violence.
Webster
Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies: for false witnesses have risen against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
World English Bible
Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
Youngs Literal Translation
Give me not to the will of my adversaries, For risen against me have false witnesses, And they breathe out violence to me.
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 27:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
My Stronghold
11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies. 12 Deliver me not over to the will of my adversaries. For FALSE witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. 13 I believe that I shall see the goodness of LORD in the land of the living.
Cross References
Psalm 35:11
Unrighteous witnesses rise up, they ask me of things that I know not.
Acts 9:1
But Saul, still breathing threat and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, after going to the high priest,
Matthew 26:59-60
Now the chief priests and the elders and the whole council sought FALSE testimony against Jesus, so that they might put him to death,
Exodus 20:16
Thou shall not bear FALSE witness against thy neighbor.
1 Samuel 22:9-10
Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
1 Samuel 26:19
Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it be LORD who has stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering, but if it be the sons of men, cursed be they before LORD. For they have d
2 Samuel 16:7-8
And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Begone, begone, thou man of blood, and base fellow.
Psalm 25:19
Consider my enemies, for they are many. And they hate me with cruel hatred.
Psalm 31:8
and thou have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. Thou have set my feet in a large place.
Psalm 35:25
Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it. Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
Psalm 38:16
For I said, Lest they rejoice over me. When my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.
Psalm 41:2
LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive, and he shall be blessed upon the earth. And thou do not deliver him to the will of his enemies.
Psalm 41:11
By this I know that thou delight in me, because my enemy does not triumph over me.
Psalm 140:8
Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked man. Do not further his evil device. They exalt themselves. Selah.
Acts 6:11-13
Then they instigated men who said, We have heard him speaking blasphemous sayings against Moses and God.
Acts 26:11
And punishing them often at all the synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme. And being extraordinarily furious toward them, I persecuted them even as far as to outside cities.