Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
For without cause they hid for me their netpit, Without cause they digged for my soul.
New American Standard Bible
Without cause they dug a
King James Version
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
Holman Bible
they dug a pit for me without cause.
International Standard Version
Without justification they laid a snare for me; without justification they dug a pit to trap me.
A Conservative Version
For without cause they have hid their net for me [in] a pit. Without cause have they dug [a pit] for my soul.
American Standard Version
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit; Without cause have they digged a pit for my soul.
Amplified
For without cause they hid their net for me;
Without cause they dug a pit [of destruction] for my life.
Bible in Basic English
For without cause they have put a net ready for me secretly, in which to take my soul.
Darby Translation
For without cause have they hidden for me their net in a pit; without cause they have digged it for my soul.
Julia Smith Translation
For gratuitously they hid for me the destruction of their net: gratuitously they dug for my soul.
King James 2000
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have dug for my soul.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For without cause they secretly hide the pit with their net for me; without cause they dug [it] for my life.
Modern King James verseion
For without cause they have spread their net for me in a pit-net; without cause they have dug for my soul.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For they have privily laid their net to destroy me without a cause; yea, and made a pit for my soul, which I never deserved.
NET Bible
I did not harm them, but they hid a net to catch me and dug a pit to trap me.
New Heart English Bible
For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
The Emphasized Bible
For, without cause, have they hid for me, in a ditch, their net, - Without cause, have they digged a pit for my life.
Webster
For without cause they have hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
World English Bible
For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 35:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer For Victory
6 Their way is darkness and slipperiness, And a messenger of Jehovah their pursuer. 7 For without cause they hid for me their netpit, Without cause they digged for my soul. 8 Meet him doth desolation -- he knoweth not, And his net that he hid catcheth him, For desolation he falleth into it.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 18:8
For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually.
Psalm 9:15
Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured.
Psalm 140:5
The proud hid a snare for me -- and cords, They spread a net by the side of the path, Snares they have set for me. Selah.
Psalm 7:3-5
O Jehovah, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands,
Psalm 25:3
Also let none waiting on Thee be ashamed, Let the treacherous dealers without cause be ashamed.
Psalm 64:4
To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not.
Psalm 69:4
Those hating me without cause Have been more than the hairs of my head, Mighty have been my destroyers, My lying enemies, That which I took not away -- I bring back.
Psalm 119:85
The proud have digged for me pits, That are not according to Thy law.
John 15:25
but -- that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law -- They hated me without a cause.