You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
- BSB You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.
- NKJV You have renounced the covenant of Your servant; You have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
- NASB You have repudiated the covenant of Your servant; You have profaned his crown in the dust.
- NLT You have renounced your covenant with him; you have thrown his crown in the dust.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Lam 5:16The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.
- Ps 74:7They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
- Ps 89:34–36I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
- Ps 116:11I said in my haste, “All men are liars.”
- Ps 143:3For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
- Ps 77:10Then I thought, “I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
- Isa 25:12He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
- John 13:7Jesus answered him, “You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand later.”
- Isa 43:28Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel an insult.”
- Ps 89:44You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground.
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