Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Let them be overcome and put to shame who make attempts to take my soul; let those who would do me damage be turned back and made foolish.
New American Standard Bible
Let those be
King James Version
Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
Holman Bible
be disgraced and humiliated;
let those who plan to harm me
be turned back and ashamed.
International Standard Version
Let those who seek my life be ashamed and disgraced; let those who plot evil against me be driven back and confounded.
A Conservative Version
Let them be put to shame and brought to dishonor who seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and confounded who devise my hurt.
American Standard Version
Let them be put to shame and brought to dishonor that seek after my soul: Let them be turned back and confounded that devise my hurt.
Amplified
Let those be ashamed and dishonored who seek my life;
Let those be turned back [in defeat] and humiliated who plot evil against me.
Darby Translation
Let them be put to shame and confounded that seek after my life; let them be turned backward and brought to confusion that devise my hurt:
Julia Smith Translation
They seeking my soul shall be ashamed and disgraced: they shall be drawn back and be ashamed purposing my evil
King James 2000
Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Let those who seek my life be shamed and humiliated. Let those who plot calamity against me be repulsed and ashamed.
Modern King James verseion
Let them be humbled and put to shame, those who seek after my soul; let them be turned back and be brought to blushing, those who plot evil to me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let them be confounded, and put to shame, that seek after my soul; let them be turned back and brought to confusion, that imagine mischief for me.
NET Bible
May those who seek my life be embarrassed and humiliated! May those who plan to harm me be turned back and ashamed!
New Heart English Bible
Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.
The Emphasized Bible
Let them be ashamed and confounded, who are seeking my life, - Let them turn back and be put to the blush, who are devising my hurt:
Webster
Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
World English Bible
Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.
Youngs Literal Translation
They are ashamed and blush, those seeking my soul, Turned backward and confounded, Those devising my evil.
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 35:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer For Victory
3 Take up your spear and keep back my attackers; say to my soul, I am your salvation. 4 Let them be overcome and put to shame who make attempts to take my soul; let those who would do me damage be turned back and made foolish. 5 Let them be like dust from the grain before the wind; let the angel of the Lord send them in flight.
Names
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:23
So take care to get knowledge of all the secret places where he is taking cover, and be certain to come back to me, and I will go with you: and without doubt, if he is anywhere in the land, I will get him, among all the families of Judah.
1 Kings 19:10
And he said, I have been burning for the honour of the Lord, the God of armies; for the children of Israel have not kept your agreement; they have made destruction of your altars, and have put your prophets to death with the sword: till I, even I, am the only one living; and now they are attempting to take away my life.
Psalm 31:17-18
Let me not be shamed, O Lord, for I have made my prayer to you; let the sinners be shamed, and let their mouths be shut in the underworld.
Psalm 35:26
Let all those who take pleasure in my troubles be shamed and come to nothing: let those who are lifted up against me be covered with shame and have no honour.
Psalm 40:14-15
Let those who go after my soul for its destruction have shame and trouble together; let them be turned back and made foolish who take pleasure in my trouble.
Psalm 70:2-3
Let those who go after my soul have shame and trouble; let those who have evil designs against me be turned back and made foolish.
Psalm 71:24
My tongue will be talking of your righteousness all the day; for those whose purpose is to do me evil have been crushed and put to shame.
Isaiah 37:29
Because your wrath against me and your pride have come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.
Jeremiah 46:5
What have I seen? they are overcome with fear and turned back; their men of war are broken and have gone in flight, not looking back: fear is on every side, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 13:19
And you have put me to shame among my people for a little barley and some bits of bread, sending death on souls for whom there is no cause of death, and keeping those souls living who have no right to life, by the false words you say to my people who give ear to what is false.
Matthew 27:1
Now when it was morning, all the chief priests and those in authority took thought together with the purpose of putting Jesus to death.
John 18:6
And when he said to them, I am he, they went back, falling to the earth.