Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
They seeking my soul shall be ashamed and disgraced: they shall be drawn back and be ashamed purposing my evil
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.
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:
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 Draw out the spear, and shut up to the meeting of them pursuing me: say to my soul, I am thy salvation. 4 They seeking my soul shall be ashamed and disgraced: they shall be drawn back and be ashamed purposing my evil 5 They shall be as chaff before the wind: and the messenger of Jehovah overthrowing.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 129:5
They shall be ashamed and draw back all hating Zion.
1 Samuel 23:23
And see ye, and know of all the hiding places where he will hide there, and turn back to me prepared, and I went with you: and it being if he is on earth, and I sought him in all the thousands of Judah.
1 Kings 19:10
And he will say, Being zealous I was zealous for Jehovah the God of armies: for the sons of Israel forsook thy covenant; they tore down thine altars, and thy prophets they killed with the sword, and I alone shall be left; and they will seek my soul to take it
Psalm 31:17-18
O Jehovah, I shall not be ashamed, for I called upon thee: the unjust shall be ashamed and they shall be destroyed to hades.
Psalm 35:26
They shall be ashamed and they shall blush together, rejoicing for my evil: they shall be clothed with shame and reproach, magnifying against me.
Psalm 38:12
My friends and my neighbors will stand from before my stroke, and my kindred stood from far off.
Psalm 40:14-15
They shall be ashamed and blush together seeking my soul to take it away; they shall be turned back, and they delighting in my evil shall be ashamed.
Psalm 70:2-3
They seeking my soul shall be confused and ashamed: they shall be turned away behind; and they desiring my evils, shall be ashamed.
Psalm 71:24
Also my tongue all the day shall celebrate thy justice; for they were confused, for they seeking my evil were ashamed.
Isaiah 37:29
Because thine anger against me and thine arrogance came up into mine ear, and I put my hook in thy nose and my curb in thy lips, and I turned thee back in the way which thou camest in it
Jeremiah 46:5
Wherefore did I see them terrified, drawing back behind? and their strong ones shall be broken, and they fled a flight, and they turned not: fear being round about, says Jehovah.
Ezekiel 13:19
Ye will profane me to my people for handfuls of barley and for morsels of bread, to kill the souls which shall not die, and to preserve alive the souls which shall not live, by your falsehood to my people hearing the falsehood?
Matthew 27:1
And having been morning, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to kill him:
John 18:6
Then, when he said to them, That I am, they went away backward, and fell to the ground.