With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
Parallel translations
- KJV Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
- BSB how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!
- NKJV With which Your enemies have reproached, O Lord, With which they have reproached the footsteps of Your anointed.
- NASB With which Your enemies have taunted, Lord, With which they have taunted the footsteps of Your anointed.
- NLT Your enemies have mocked me, O Lord; they mock your anointed king wherever he goes.
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Cross-references & the web
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- 1 Pet 4:14–16If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.
- Ps 74:10How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
- 1 Cor 4:12–13We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
- Heb 10:33partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
- Heb 11:36Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
- 1 Pet 2:20–21For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.
- 1 Pet 3:16having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.
- 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.
- Ps 56:5–6All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
- Matt 12:24But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”
- Matt 5:10–12Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
- Matt 26:61and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.’”
- 2 Sam 16:7–8Shimei said when he cursed, “Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and base fellow!
- John 8:48Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”
- Acts 5:41They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.
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