Parallel Verses
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.
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:
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.
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 Bring forth the spear, and stop the way against them that pursue me; say unto my soul, "I am thy salvation." 4 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. 5 Let them be as the dust before the wind, and the angel of the LORD scattering them.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 129:5
All them that have an evil will to Zion shall be confounded, and made to turn back from it.
1 Samuel 23:23
See therefore and know all the lurking places where he lurketh, and come again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you. And then if he be in the land, I will hunt him out with all the thousands of Judah.
1 Kings 19:10
And he answered, "I have been thorough angry for the LORD God of Hosts' sake. For the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, and have broken down thine altars and slain the Prophets with the sword, and I only am left, and they seek my soul to have it too."
Psalm 31:17-18
Let me not be confounded, O LORD, for I have called upon thee: let the ungodly be put to confusion, and put to silence in the grave.
Psalm 35:26
Let them be put to confusion and shame together, that rejoice at my trouble: let them be clothed with rebuke and dishonour, that boast themselves against me.
Psalm 38:12
They also that sought after my life laid snares for me; and they that went about to do me evil talked of wickedness, and imagined deceit all the day long.
Psalm 40:14-15
Let them be ashamed and confounded together, that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward, and put to rebuke, that wish me evil.
Psalm 70:2-3
Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul; let them be turned backward, and put to confusion that wish me evil.
Psalm 71:24
My tongue talketh of thy righteousness, all the day long; for they are confounded and brought unto shame that seek to do me evil.
Isaiah 37:29
Therefore thy furiousness against me, and thy pride is come before me. I will put a ring in thy nose, and a bridle bit in the jaws of thee, and turn thee about, even the same way thou camest.
Jeremiah 46:5
But alas, how happeneth it, that I see you so afraid? Why shrink ye back? Wherefore are your worthies slain? Yea, they run so fast away, that none of them looketh behind him. Fearfulness is fallen upon every one of them, sayeth the LORD.
Ezekiel 13:19
and dishonour me to my people for a handful of barley, and for a piece of bread. When ye kill the souls of them that die not, and promise life to them that live not: Thus ye dissemble with my people, that believeth your lies.
Matthew 27:1
when the morning was come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people held a counsel against Jesus, to put him to death,
John 18:6
But as soon as he had said unto them, "I am he," they went backwards and fell to the ground.