Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Let destruction come upon him unawares, and let his net that he has hid catch himself. Let him fall in it with destruction.
New American Standard Bible
And
Into that very
King James Version
Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
Holman Bible
and let the net that he hid ensnare him;
let him fall into it—to his ruin.
International Standard Version
Let destruction come upon them unawares, and let the net that he hid catch him; let him fall into destruction.
American Standard Version
Let destruction come upon him unawares; And let his net that he hath hid catch himself: With destruction let him fall therein.
Amplified
Let destruction come upon my enemy by surprise;
Let the net he hid for me catch him;
Into that very destruction let him fall.
Bible in Basic English
Let destruction come on them without their knowledge; let them be taken themselves in their secret nets, falling into the same destruction.
Darby Translation
Let destruction come upon him unawares, and let his net which he hath hidden catch himself: for destruction let him fall therein.
Julia Smith Translation
Desolation shall come to him not knowing, and his net which he hid shall take him: in destruction he shall fall in it
King James 2000
Let destruction come upon him unawares; and let his net that he has hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Let {unforeseen ruin} come on him, and his net that he hid, let it catch him. Let him fall into it in ruin.
Modern King James verseion
Let destruction come upon him, he will not know; and let his net which he has concealed catch him, let him fall in it, into destruction.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let a sudden destruction come upon him unawares, and his net that he hath laid privily catch himself, that he may fall into his own mischief.
NET Bible
Let destruction take them by surprise! Let the net they hid catch them! Let them fall into destruction!
New Heart English Bible
Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.
The Emphasized Bible
There shall reach him a ruin he could not know, - Yea, his own net which he hath hidden, shall capture him, Into that ruin, shall he fall!
Webster
Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
World English Bible
Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.
Youngs Literal Translation
Meet him doth desolation -- he knoweth not, And his net that he hid catcheth him, For desolation he falleth into it.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 35:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer For Victory
7 For without cause they have hid their net for me [in] a pit. Without cause have they dug [a pit] for my soul. 8 Let destruction come upon him unawares, and let his net that he has hid catch himself. Let him fall in it with destruction. 9 And my soul shall be joyful in LORD. It shall rejoice in his salvation.
Cross References
1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction approaches them, as the woman having birth pangs in her womb, and they will, no, not escape.
1 Samuel 18:17
And Saul said to David, Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to thee for a wife. Only be thou valiant for me, and fight LORD's battles. For Saul said, Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be
1 Samuel 31:2-4
And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons, and the Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.
2 Samuel 17:2-4
And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid. And all the people who are with him shall flee. And I will only smite the king,
2 Samuel 17:23
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and got home to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself. And he died, and was buried in the sepulcher of his father.
2 Samuel 18:14-15
Then Joab said, I will not delay thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
Esther 7:10
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath was pacified.
Psalm 7:15-16
He has made a pit, and dug it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
Psalm 9:15
The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
Psalm 57:6
They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They have dug a pit before me. They are fallen into the midst of it themselves. Selah.
Psalm 64:7
But God will shoot at them. With an arrow they shall suddenly be wounded.
Psalm 73:18-20
Surely thou set them in slippery places. Thou cast them down to destruction.
Psalm 141:9-10
Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities shall take a wicked man, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.
Proverbs 29:1
He who, being often reproved, hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Isaiah 47:11
Therefore evil shall come upon thee. Thou shall not know the dawning of it. And mischief shall fall upon thee. Thou shall not be able to put it away. And desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou know not.
Matthew 27:3-5
Then Judas, who betrayed him, after seeing that he was condemned, having repented, he brought back the thirty silver pieces to the chief priests and elders,
Luke 21:34
But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down in debauchery and drunkenness and mundane cares, and that day come upon you sudden.