Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

I am as a speculate to many, but thou are my strong refuge.

New American Standard Bible

I have become a marvel to many,
For You are my strong refuge.

King James Version

I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.

Holman Bible

I have become an ominous sign to many,
but You are my strong refuge.

International Standard Version

I have become an example to many that you are my strong refuge.

American Standard Version

I am as a wonder unto many; But thou art my strong refuge.

Amplified


I am as a wonder to many,
For You are my strong refuge.

Bible in Basic English

I am a wonder to all; but you are my strong tower.

Darby Translation

I have been as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.

Julia Smith Translation

I was as a wonder to many: and thou my refuge of strength.

King James 2000

I am as a wonder unto many; but you are my strong refuge.

Lexham Expanded Bible

I have become a wonder to many, but you [are] my strong refuge.

Modern King James verseion

I am like a wonder to many, but You are my strong tower.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I am become as it were a monster unto many, but my sure trust is in thee.

NET Bible

Many are appalled when they see me, but you are my secure shelter.

New Heart English Bible

I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge.

The Emphasized Bible

A very wonder, have I been unto many, Seeing that, thou, hast been my strong refuge,

Webster

I am as a wonder to many; but thou art my strong refuge.

World English Bible

I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge.

Youngs Literal Translation

As a wonder I have been to many, And Thou art my strong refuge.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
I am as a wonder
מפת מופת 
Mowpheth 
Usage: 36

but thou art my strong
עוז עז 
`oz 
Usage: 55

Verse Info

Context Readings

A Prayer To God The Rock Of Refuge

6 By thee I have been held up from the womb. Thou are he who took me out of my mother's bowels. My praise shall be continually of thee. 7 I am as a speculate to many, but thou are my strong refuge. 8 My mouth shall be filled with thy praise, and with thy honor all the day.

Cross References

Isaiah 8:18

Behold, I and the children whom LORD has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from LORD of hosts, who dwells in mount Zion.

1 Corinthians 4:9

For I think God has exhibited us the apostles least, as men sentenced to die, because we became a spectacle to the world, both to heavenly agents and to men.

Psalm 61:3

For thou have been a refuge for me, a strong tower from the enemy.

Psalm 62:7

With God is my salvation and my glory. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

Psalm 142:4-5

Look on [my] right hand, and see, for there is no man who knows me. Refuge has failed me. No man cares for my soul.

Jeremiah 16:19

O LORD, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to thee the nations shall come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, [even] vanity and things in whic

Zechariah 3:6

And the agent of LORD testified to Joshua, saying,

Luke 2:34

And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother, Behold, this man is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign being repudiated

Acts 4:13

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and having perceived that they are illiterate and uneducated men, they marveled. And they recognized them, that they had been with Jesus.

2 Corinthians 4:8-12

restricted in everything, yet not confined, perplexed but not despairing,

2 Corinthians 6:8-10

through glory and disrepute, through slander and commendation; as deceitful, and yet true;

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