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Psalms 27:12

Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

KJV

Deliver me not over unto the will of mine adversaries: For false witnesses are risen up against me, And such as breathe out cruelty.

ASV

אַֽל תִּ֭תְּנֵ/נִי בְּ/נֶ֣פֶשׁ צָרָ֑/י כִּ֥י קָֽמוּ בִ֥/י עֵֽדֵי שֶׁ֝֗קֶר וִ/יפֵ֥חַ חָמָֽס

Hebrew

Give me not to the will of my adversaries, For risen against me have false witnesses, And they breathe out violence to me.

YLT

Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אַל
'l
preposition · 720×
ו
v
verb · 107×
חָמָ֖ס
chms
noun · 59×
י
y
noun · 752×
יָּ֣קָם
yqm
verb · 626×
יפֵ֥חַ
ypch
noun · 1×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
ם
m
verb · 1995×
עֵ֣ד
'd
noun · 70×
שָֽׁקֶר
shqr
noun · 110×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 22:9 — Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
  • 1Sam 26:19 — Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be t
  • 2Sam 16:7 — And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:
  • Acts 6:11 — Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
  • Acts 9:1 — And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
  • Acts 25:7 — And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove.
  • Acts 26:11 — And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
  • Deut 19:16 — If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
  • Exod 20:16 — Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
  • Jer 37:14 — Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
  • Job 16:11 — God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
  • Matt 26:59 — Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
  • Matt 26:60 — But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,
  • Mic 7:7 — Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
  • Prov 6:19 — A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
  • Ps 31:8 — And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
  • Ps 35:11 — False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
  • Ps 35:11 — False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
  • Ps 35:25 — Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
  • Ps 38:16 — For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
  • Ps 41:2 — The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
  • Ps 41:2 — The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
  • Ps 41:11 — By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
  • Ps 55:3 — Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
  • Ps 140:8 — Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
  • Ps 140:8 — Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.