Psalms 70:2

King James Version (1611 Edition)

I sinke in deepe mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deepe waters, where the flouds ouerflow me.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Let those who seek to kill mebe disgraced and confounded;let those who wish me harmbe turned back and humiliated.

Hebrew Names Version
Let them be put to shame and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.

King James Version
Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.

English Standard Version
Let them be put to shame and confusion who seek my life! Let them be turned back and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt!

New Century Version
Let those who are trying to kill me be ashamed and disgraced. Let those who want to hurt me run away in disgrace.

New English Translation
May those who are trying to take my life be embarrassed and ashamed! May those who want to harm me be turned back and ashamed!

Amplified Bible
Let those be ashamed and humiliated Who seek my life; Let them be turned back and humiliated Who delight in my hurt.

New American Standard Bible
May those who seek my life Be put to shame and humiliated; May those who delight in my harm Be turned back and dishonored.

World English Bible
Let them be put to shame and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Let them be confounded & put to shame, that seeke my soule: let them bee turned backewarde and put to rebuke, that desire mine hurt.

Legacy Standard Bible
Let those be ashamed and humiliatedWho seek my life;Let those be turned back and dishonoredWho delight in evil against me.

Berean Standard Bible
May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated.

Contemporary English Version
Disappoint and confuse all who want to kill me. Turn away and disgrace all who want to hurt me.

Complete Jewish Bible
God, rescue me! Adonai , hurry and help me!

Darby Translation
Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion that seek after my soul; let them be turned backward and confounded that take pleasure in mine adversity;

Easy-to-Read Version
People are trying to kill me. Please disappoint them. Humiliate them! They want to hurt me. Make them run away in shame.

George Lamsa Translation
Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward and put to confusion that desire my hurt.

Good News Translation
May those who try to kill me be defeated and confused. May those who are happy because of my troubles be turned back and disgraced.

Lexham English Bible
Let them be ashamed and abashed who seek my life. Let them be repulsed and humiliated who desire my harm.

Literal Translation
Let those who seek after my soul be ashamed and turned pale; let them be turned backward and shamed, those who desire my evil.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Let the be shamed & confounded that seke after my soule: let them be turned backwarde & put to confucio, that wysh me euell.

American Standard Version
Let them be put to shame and confounded That seek after my soul: Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor That delight in my hurt.

Bible in Basic English
Let those who go after my soul have shame and trouble; let those who have evil designs against me be turned back and made foolish.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
data-lang="eng" data-trans="jps" data-ref="psa.70.3" class="versetxt"> Let them be ashamed and abashed that seek after my soul; let them be turned backward and brought to confusion that delight in my hurt. Let them be turned back by reason of their shame that say: 'Aha, aha.' Let all those that seek Thee rejoice and be glad in Thee; But I am poor and needy; O God, make haste unto me; {P}

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let them be ashamed and confounded that seke after my soule: let them be turned backwarde and be put to confusion that wishe me euyll.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek my soul: let them be turned backward and put to shame, that wish me evil.

English Revised Version
Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward and brought to dishonour that delight in my hurt.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Be thei schent, and aschamed; that seken my lijf. Be thei turned a bak; and schame thei, that wolen yuels to me.

Update Bible Version
Let them be put to shame and confounded That seek after my soul: Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor That delight in my hurt.

Webster's Bible Translation
Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.

New King James Version
Let them be ashamed and confoundedWho seek my life;Let them be turned back Psalms 40:15).">[fn] and confusedWho desire my hurt.

New Living Translation
May those who try to kill me be humiliated and put to shame. May those who take delight in my trouble be turned back in disgrace.

New Life Bible
Let those who want to kill me be ashamed and brought low. Let those who want to hurt me be turned away in shame.

New Revised Standard
Let those be put to shame and confusion who seek my life. Let those be turned back and brought to dishonor who desire to hurt me.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Let them turn pale and then at once blush, Who are seeking my life, - Let them draw back, and be confounded, Who are taking pleasure in my misfortune;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(69-3) Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek my soul:

Revised Standard Version
Let them be put to shame and confusion who seek my life! Let them be turned back and brought to dishonor who desire my hurt!

Young's Literal Translation
Let them be ashamed and confounded Who are seeking my soul, Let them be turned backward and blush Who are desiring my evil.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Let those be ashamed and humiliated Who seek my life; Let those be turned back and dishonored Who delight in my hurt.

Contextual Overview

¹ [To the chiefe musician vpon Shoshannim, A Psalme of Dauid.] Saue mee, O God, for the waters are come in vnto my soule. ² I sinke in deepe mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deepe waters, where the flouds ouerflow me. ³ I am weary of my crying, my throate is dried: mine eyes faile while I waite for my God. ⁴ They that hate mee without a cause, are moe then the haires of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mightie: then I restored that which I tooke not away. ⁵ O God, thou knowest my foolishnesse; and my sinnes are not hidde from thee. Let not them that waite on thee, O Lord God of hostes, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seeke thee, be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel. Because for thy sake I haue borne reproch: shame hath couered my face. I am become a stranger vnto my brethren, and an aliant vnto my mothers children. For the zeale of thine house hath eaten mee vp; and the reproches of them that reproched thee, are fallen vpon me. When I wept, and chastened my soule with fasting, that was to my reproch. I made sackecloth also my garment: & I became a prouerbe to them. They that sit in the gate, speake against mee; and I was the song of the drunkards. But as for mee, my prayer is vnto thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercie heare me, in the trueth of thy saluation. Deliuer me out of the mire, and let me not sinke: let me bee deliuered from them that hate me, and out of the deepe waters. Let not the water flood ouerflow me, neither let the deepe swallow mee vp, and let not the pit shut her mouth vpon me. Heare me, O Lord, for thy louing kindnesse is good: turne vnto mee according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. And hide not thy face from thy seruant, for I am in trouble: heare me speedily. Draw nigh vnto my soule, and redeeme it: deliuer me because of mine enemies. Thou hast knowen my reproch and my shame and my dishonor: mine aduersaries are all before thee. Reproch hath broken my heart, and I am full of heauines: and I looked for some to take pitie, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. They gaue mee also gall for my meat, and in my thirst they gaue mee vineger to drinke. Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should haue bene for their welfare, let it become a trap. Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and make their loines continually to shake. Powre out thine indignation vpon them, and let thy wrathfull anger take hold of them. Let their habitation be desolate, and let none dwell in their tents. For they persecute him who thou hast smitten, and they talke to the griefe of those whom thou hast wounded. Adde iniquitie vnto their iniquitie: and let them not come into thy righteousnesse. Let them bee blotted out of the booke of the liuing, and not be written with the righteous. But I am poore, and sorowfull: let thy saluation (O God) set me vp on high. I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnifie him with thankesgiuing. This also shall please the Lord better then an oxe or bullocke that hath hornes and hoofes. The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall liue that seeke good. For the Lord heareth the poore, and despiseth not his prisoners. Let the heauen and earth praise him, the seas, and euery thing that moueth therein. For God will saue Sion, and will build the cities of Iudah, that they may dwell there, and haue it in possession. The seede also of his seruants shall inherit it: and they that loue his name shall dwell therein.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Let: Psalms 6:10, Psalms 35:4, Psalms 35:26, Psalms 71:13, Psalms 109:29, Isaiah 41:11

my soul: Rather,"my life," naphshee; for the word has frequently this meaning.

be turned: Isaiah 28:13, John 18:6

Reciprocal: Psalms 25:3 - let Psalms 31:17 - wicked Psalms 40:14 - Let them be ashamed Psalms 63:9 - seek Psalms 71:12 - make Jeremiah 17:18 - confounded Lamentations 1:13 - he hath turned Ezekiel 25:3 - thou saidst

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let them be ashamed and confounded,.... In Psalms 40:14 it is added, "together"; Psalms 40:14- :;

that seek after my soul; or "life"; in Psalms 40:14 it is added, "to destroy it"; for that was the end of their seeking after it;

let them be turned backward, &c. Psalms 40:14- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul - The only change here from Psalms 40:14, is the omission of the word “together” which occurs there, and the omission of the words “to destroy it.”

Let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt - This corresponds in the Hebrew entirely with Psalms 40:14.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 70:2. Let them be turned backward — They are coming in a body against me. Lord, stop their progress!