When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
Parallel translations
- KJV When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
- BSB When the wicked came upon me to devour my flesh, my enemies and foes stumbled and fell.
- NKJV When the wicked came against me To eat up my flesh, My enemies and foes, They stumbled and fell.
- NASB When evildoers came upon me to devour my flesh, My adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell.
- NLT When evil people come to devour me, when my enemies and foes attack me, they will stumble and fall.
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- Ps 118:12They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In Yahweh’s name I cut them off.
- Ps 3:7Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.
- Ps 22:16For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
- Ps 14:4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?
- Ps 9:3When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.
- Isa 8:15Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.”
- Job 19:22Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
- Ps 18:4The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
- Ps 18:38–42I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.
- John 18:3–6Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
- Job 31:31if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’
- Ps 62:3–4How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
- Ps 53:4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God?
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