Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Let those be ashamed and dishonored who seek my life;
Let those be turned back and humiliated who devise evil against me.

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

Let those who seek to kill me
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.

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.

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.

Verse Info

Context Readings

Prayer For Victory

3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against those that persecute me; say unto my soul; I am thy saving health. 4 Let those be ashamed and dishonored who seek my life;
Let those be turned back and humiliated who devise evil against me.
5 Let them be as chaff before the wind, and let the angel of the LORD chase them.


Cross References

Psalm 129:5

All those that hate Zion shall all be confounded and turned back.

1 Samuel 23:23

See, therefore, and take knowledge of all the hiding places where he hides himself and come again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you; and it shall come to pass, if he is in the land that I will search him out with all the thousands of Judah.

1 Kings 19:10

And he replied, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of the hosts, for the sons of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left, and they seek me to take my life.

Psalm 31:17-18

Let me not be ashamed, O LORD, for I have called upon thee; let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be cut off for Sheol.

Psalm 35:26

Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at my hurt; let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

Psalm 38:12

Those that seek after my life lay snares for me, and those that seek my hurt speak calamities and imagine deceits all the day long.

Psalm 40:14-15

Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my life to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

Psalm 70:2-3

Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my life; let them be turned backward and put to confusion that desire my hurt.

Psalm 71:24

In the same manner my tongue shall talk of thy righteousness every day, for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.

Isaiah 37:29

Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou didst come.

Jeremiah 46:5

Why have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down and are fled in haste, and do not look back: for fear was round about, said the LORD.

Ezekiel 13:19

And will ye profane me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, slaying the souls that should not die and giving life to the souls that should not live, by your lying to my people that listen to the lie?

Matthew 27:1

When the morning was come, all the princes of the priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death,

John 18:6

And when he said unto them, I AM, they went backward and fell to the ground.

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