Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

But those who seek my life to destroy it,
Will go into the depths of the earth.

King James Version

But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

Holman Bible

But those who seek to destroy my life
will go into the depths of the earth.

International Standard Version

But as for those who seek to destroy me, they will go down to the depths of the earth;

A Conservative Version

but those who seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

American Standard Version

But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, Shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

Amplified


But those who seek my life to destroy it
Will [be destroyed and] go into the depths of the earth [into the underworld].

Darby Translation

But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth;

Julia Smith Translation

They will seek my soul for destruction, they shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

King James 2000

But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

Lexham Expanded Bible

But as for them [who] seek my life for ruin, they will go into the depths of the earth.

Modern King James verseion

But those who seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the depths of the earth.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

These also that seek the hurt of my soul, they shall go under the earth.

NET Bible

Enemies seek to destroy my life, but they will descend into the depths of the earth.

New Heart English Bible

But those who seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

The Emphasized Bible

When, they, to crush it, would seek my life, They shall go into the lower parts of the earth:

Webster

But those that seek my soul to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

World English Bible

But those who seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

Youngs Literal Translation

And they who for desolation seek my soul, Go in to the lower parts of the earth.

References

Context Readings

Praise God Who Satisfies

8 My soul has followed hard after thee; thy right hand has upheld me. 9 But those who seek my life to destroy it,
Will go into the depths of the earth.
10 They shall be slain by the sword; they shall be a portion for foxes.

Cross References

Psalm 55:15

Let them be condemned unto death, and let them go down alive into Sheol for wickedness is in their dwellings and among them.

Psalm 40:14

Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my life to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

Psalm 9:17

The wicked shall be put into Sheol, all the Gentiles that forget God.

Numbers 16:30-33

But if the LORD does a new thing and the earth opens her mouth and swallows them up with all their things and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall know that these men have provoked the LORD.

1 Samuel 25:29

Yet a man is risen to pursue thee and to seek thy soul, but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God, and he shall hurl forth the souls of thine enemies as out of the middle of a sling.

1 Samuel 28:19

And the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines, and tomorrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me; the LORD shall also deliver the camp of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.

Job 40:13

Hide them in the dust together; and blindfold their faces in darkness.

Psalm 35:4

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.

Psalm 35:26

Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at my hurt; let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

Psalm 38:12

Those that seek after my life lay snares for me, and those that seek my hurt speak calamities and imagine deceits all the day long.

Psalm 55:23

But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of the grave; bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in thee.

Psalm 70:2

Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my life; let them be turned backward and put to confusion that desire my hurt.

Psalm 86:13

For great is thy mercy upon me, and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest part of Sheol.

Isaiah 14:9

Sheol from beneath is aghast at thee; it stirs up the dead to meet thee at thy coming; it has raised up from their thrones all the princes of the earth, all the kings of the Gentiles.

Isaiah 14:15

Yet thou shalt be cast down to Sheol, to the sides of the pit.

Isaiah 14:19

But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that went down to the bottom of the pit, as a carcase trodden under feet.

Ezekiel 32:18-32

Son of man, lament over the multitude of Egypt and cast him down and the habitations of the strong Gentiles into the lower parts of the earth with those that go down into the grave.

Acts 1:25

that he may take the lot or inheritance of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas rebelled that he might go to his own place.

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