Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.
Parallel translations
- KJV Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.
- BSB Though my persecutors and foes are many, I have not turned from Your testimonies.
- NKJV Many are my persecutors and my enemies, Yet I do not turn from Your testimonies.
- NASB Many are my persecutors and my enemies, Yet I do not turn aside from Your testimonies.
- NLT Many persecute and trouble me, yet I have not swerved from your laws.
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- 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
- Ps 119:51The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law.
- Isa 42:4He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands will wait for his law.”
- Acts 20:23–24except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.
- Job 17:9Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
- Job 23:11My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned aside.
- Ps 56:2My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.
- Ps 25:19Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.
- Ps 44:17All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.
- Ps 119:110The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.
- Ps 22:16For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
- Matt 24:9Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.
- Acts 4:27“For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together
- Ps 7:1A meditation by David, which he sang to Yahweh, concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite. Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,
- Ps 3:1–2A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his son. Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.
- Ps 22:12Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.
- Ps 118:10–12All the nations surrounded me, but in Yahweh’s name, I cut them off.
- Matt 26:47While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
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