For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”
Parallel translations
- KJV For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
- BSB For I said, “Let them not gloat over me—those who taunt me when my foot slips.”
- NKJV For I said, “Hear me, lest they rejoice over me, Lest, when my foot slips, they exalt themselves against me.”
- NASB For I said, “May they not rejoice over me, Who, when my foot slips, would exalt themselves over me.”
- NLT I prayed, “Don’t let my enemies gloat over me or rejoice at my downfall.”
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Deut 32:35Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”
- Ps 94:18When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
- Ps 35:24–26Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me.
- Ps 13:3–4Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;
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