Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this, that God is for me.
Parallel translations
- KJV When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.
- BSB Then my enemies will retreat on the day I cry for help. By this I will know that God is on my side.
- NKJV When I cry out to You, Then my enemies will turn back; This I know, because God is for me.
- NASB Then my enemies will turn back on the day when I call; This I know, that God is for me.
- NLT My enemies will retreat when I call to you for help. This I know: God is on my side!
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Rom 8:31What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
- Ps 118:6Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
- Ps 102:2Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.
- Ps 46:11Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
- Isa 8:9–10Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!
- Ps 118:11–13They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. In Yahweh’s name I indeed cut them off.
- Ps 9:3When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.
- Jer 33:3‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don’t know.’
- Ps 46:7Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
- John 18:6When therefore he said to them, “I am he,” they went backward, and fell to the ground.
- Ps 27:2When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
- Ps 18:38–42I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.
- Exod 17:9–11Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God’s rod in my hand.”
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