My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.
Parallel translations
- KJV Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
- BSB My enemies pursue me all day long, for many proudly assail me.
- NKJV My enemies would hound me all day, For there are many who fight against me, O Most High.
- NASB My enemies have trampled upon me all day long, For they are many who fight proudly against me.
- NLT I am constantly hounded by those who slander me, and many are boldly attacking me.
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Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 118:10–12All the nations surrounded me, but in Yahweh’s name, I cut them off.
- Ps 57:3He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.
- Mic 6:6How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
- Acts 4:25–27who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
- Ps 3:1A 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 92:1A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day. It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, to sing praises to your name, Most High;
- Ps 92:8But you, Yahweh, are on high forever more.
- Ps 9:2I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
- Ps 35:1By David. Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.
- Ps 93:4Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.
- Ps 54:5He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth.
- Ps 91:1He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
- Isa 57:15For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
- Rev 16:14for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.
- Dan 5:18You, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty:
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