Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
For strangers are risen up against me, and the violent seek after my life: they have not set God before them. Selah.
New American Standard Bible
And
They have
King James Version
For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
Holman Bible
and violent men seek my life.
They have no regard for God.
International Standard Version
For the arrogant have arisen against me; oppressors have sought to take my life. They do not keep God in mind! Interlude
A Conservative Version
For strangers are risen up against me, and violent men have sought after my soul. They have not set God before them. Selah.
American Standard Version
For strangers are risen up against me, And violent men have sought after my soul: They have not set God before them. Selah
Amplified
For strangers have risen against me
And violent men have sought my life;
They have not set God before them. Selah.
Bible in Basic English
For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. (Selah.)
Julia Smith Translation
For strangers rose up against me, and the powerful sought out my soul: they set not God before them. Silence.
King James 2000
For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For foreigners have risen against me, and ruthless [men] seek my life. They have not set God before them. Selah
Modern King James verseion
For strangers have risen up against me, and cruel men seek after my soul; they have not set God before them. Selah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For strangers are risen up against me; and tyrants, which have not God before their eyes, seek after my soul. Selah.
NET Bible
For foreigners attack me; ruthless men, who do not respect God, seek my life. (Selah)
New Heart English Bible
For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.
The Emphasized Bible
For, aliens, have risen up against me, And, men of violence, have sought my life, They have not set God before them. Selah.
Webster
For strangers have risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
World English Bible
For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.
Youngs Literal Translation
For strangers have risen up against me And terrible ones have sought my soul, They have not set God before them. Selah.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 54:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer For Deliverance
2 O God, hear my prayer; give ear to the words of my mouth. 3 For strangers are risen up against me, and the violent seek after my life: they have not set God before them. Selah. 4 Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is among them that uphold my soul.
Cross References
Psalm 86:14
O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assembly of the violent seek after my soul, and they have not set thee before them.
Psalm 36:1
{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of the servant of Jehovah; of David.} The transgression of the wicked uttereth within my heart, There is no fear of God before his eyes.
Job 19:13-15
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are quite estranged from me.
Psalm 16:8
I have set Jehovah continually before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Psalm 22:16
For dogs have encompassed me; an assembly of evil-doers have surrounded me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
Psalm 40:14
Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be turned backward and confounded that take pleasure in mine adversity;
Psalm 53:4
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people as they eat bread? they call not upon God.
Psalm 59:3-5
For behold, they lie in wait for my soul; strong ones are gathered against me: not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Jehovah.
Psalm 69:8
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's sons;
Matthew 27:20-23
But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds that they should beg for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
John 16:3
and these things they will do because they have not known the Father nor me.