At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.
Parallel translations
- KJV For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
- BSB at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge.
- NKJV Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles, Because of the enemy and the avenger.
- NASB Because of the voice of one who taunts and reviles, Because of the presence of the enemy and the avenger.
- NLT All we hear are the taunts of our mockers. All we see are our vengeful enemies.
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- Ps 8:2From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.
- Ps 74:18Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
- Ps 74:22–23Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
- Ps 74:10How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
- Isa 37:17Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.
- Isa 37:3–4They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘Today is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to give birth.
- Ps 79:12Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
- Isa 37:23–24Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
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