Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Let my hater go after my soul and take it; let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. (Selah.)
New American Standard Bible
And let him trample my life down to the ground
And lay my glory in the dust.
King James Version
Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
Holman Bible
may he trample me to the ground
and leave my honor in the dust.
International Standard Version
then, let my enemy pursue me, let him overtake me, and let him trample my life to the ground. Interlude Let him put my honor into the dust.
A Conservative Version
let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it. Yea, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.
American Standard Version
Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; Yea, let him tread my life down to the earth, And lay my glory in the dust. Selah
Amplified
Let the enemy pursue me and overtake me;
And let him trample my life to the ground
And lay my honor in the dust. Selah.
Darby Translation
Let the enemy pursue after my soul, and take it, and let him tread down my life to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.
Julia Smith Translation
The enemy will pursue my soul, and overtake; and he will tread down my life to the earth, and he will cause mine honor to dwell upon the dust Silence.
King James 2000
Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah.
Lexham Expanded Bible
let the enemy of my soul pursue, and overtake and trample my life into the ground, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah
Modern King James verseion
let the enemy persecute my soul and take it; yea, let him trample down my life on the earth and lay my honor in the dust. Selah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Then let mine enemy persecute my soul, and take me. Yea, let him tread my life down upon the earth, and lay mine honor in the dust. Selah.
NET Bible
may an enemy relentlessly chase me and catch me; may he trample me to death and leave me lying dishonored in the dust. (Selah)
New Heart English Bible
let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.
The Emphasized Bible
Let an enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it, that he may tread down, to the earth, my life, - and, mine honour - in the dust, he may cause to dwell. Selah.
Webster
Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yes, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah.
World English Bible
let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.
Youngs Literal Translation
An enemy pursueth my soul, and overtaketh, And treadeth down to the earth my life, And my honour placeth in the dust. Selah.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 7:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer For Justice
4 If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause; 5 Let my hater go after my soul and take it; let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. (Selah.) 6 Come up, Lord, in your wrath; be lifted up against my haters; be awake, my God, give orders for the judging.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 16:15
I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.
Job 31:5-10
If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;
Job 31:38-40
If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;
Job 40:12-13
Send destruction on all who are lifted up, pulling down the sinners from their places.
Psalm 44:5
Through you will we overcome our haters; by your name will they be crushed under our feet who are violent against us.
Psalm 49:12
But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.
Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.
Isaiah 63:3
I have been crushing the grapes by myself, and of the peoples there was no man with me: in my wrath and in my passion, they were crushed under my feet; and my robes are marked with their life-blood, and all my clothing is red.
Jeremiah 17:13
O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who give you up will be put to shame; those who go away from you will be cut off from the earth, because they have given up the Lord, the fountain of living waters.
Habakkuk 3:13
You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of the one on whom your holy oil was put; wounding the head of the family of the evil-doer, uncovering the base even to the neck. Selah.
Zechariah 10:5
Together they will be like men of war, crushing down their haters into the earth of the streets in the fight; they will make war because the Lord is with them: and the horsemen will be shamed.
Malachi 4:3
And the evil-doers will be crushed under you, they will be dust under your feet, in the day when I do my work, says the Lord of armies.