By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.
Parallel translations
- KJV By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
- BSB By this I know that You delight in me, for my enemy does not triumph over me.
- NKJV By this I know that You are well pleased with me, Because my enemy does not triumph over me.
- NASB By this I know that You are pleased with me, Because my enemy does not shout in triumph over me.
- NLT I know you are pleased with me, for you have not let my enemies triumph over me.
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Cross-references · 9
- Col 2:15having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
- Ps 124:6Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
- Ps 147:11Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.
- Ps 25:2My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.
- Jer 20:13Sing to Yahweh, praise Yahweh; for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.
- Ps 86:17Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.
- Ps 31:8You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.
- Ps 13:4Lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him”; Lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.
- Ps 35:25Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”
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