Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Then will mine enemies turn back in the day I shall call: this I knew, that God is for me.
New American Standard Bible
This I know,
King James Version
When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.
Holman Bible
This I know: God is for me.
International Standard Version
My enemies will retreat when I call on you. This has been my experience, because God is with me.
A Conservative Version
Then shall my enemies turn back in the day that I call. This I know, that God is for me.
American Standard Version
Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call: This I know, that God is for me.
Amplified
Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call;
This I know, that God is for me.
Bible in Basic English
When I send up my cry to you, my haters will be turned back; I am certain of this, for God is with me.
Darby Translation
Then shall mine enemies return backward in the day when I call: this I know, for God is for me.
King James 2000
When I cry unto you, then shall my enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Then my enemies will turn back {when} I call. This I know because God [is] for me.
Modern King James verseion
When I cry, then my enemies will be turned back. This I know, for God is with me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Whensoever I call upon thee, then shall mine enemies be put to flight; whereby I know that thou art my God.
NET Bible
My enemies will turn back when I cry out to you for help; I know that God is on my side.
New Heart English Bible
Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this, that God is for me.
The Emphasized Bible
Then, shall my foes turn back, in the day I cry, This, I know, for God is mine!
Webster
When I cry to thee, then shall my enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.
World English Bible
Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this, that God is for me.
Youngs Literal Translation
Then turn back do mine enemies in the day I call. This I have known, that God is for me.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 56:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Call For God's Protection
8 Thou didst recount my wanderings: set thou my tears in thy bottle: are they not in thy book? 9 Then will mine enemies turn back in the day I shall call: this I knew, that God is for me. 10 In God I will praise the word: in Jehovah I will praise the word.
Cross References
Romans 8:31
What then shall we say to these? if God with us, who against us?
Psalm 102:2
Thou wilt not hide thy face from me in the day of straits to me; incline thine ear to me: in the day I shall call, speedily answer me.
Psalm 118:6
Jehovah for me, I will not fear what man shall do to me.
Exodus 17:9-11
And Moses will say to Joshua, Choose to us men, and go forth, wage war with Amalek: to-morrow I stand upon the head of the hill and the rod of God in my band.
Psalm 9:3
In the turning away of mine enemies backward, they shall be weak and perish from thy face.
Psalm 18:38-42
I will smite them through and through, and they shall not be able to rise: they shall fall under my feet.
Psalm 27:2
In the drawing near of those doing evil to me, to eat my flesh, adversaries and enemies to me, they were weak and fell
Psalm 46:7
Jehovah of armies is with us, the God of Jacob a height for us. Silence.
Psalm 46:11
Jehovah of armies is with us; the God of Jacob a height for us. Silence.
Psalm 118:11-13
They surrounded me; also they surrounded me: in the name of Jehovah but I will cut them of
Isaiah 8:9-10
Make friendship, ye peoples, and be broken in pieces; and give ear, every land from afar; be girded and be broken in pieces; be girded and be broken in pieces.
Jeremiah 33:3
Call to me and I will answer thee, and I will announce to thee great and mighty things which thou knewest them not
John 18:6
Then, when he said to them, That I am, they went away backward, and fell to the ground.