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Psalms 35:12

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Enemy;   Evil for Good;   Friends;   Good for Evil;   Ingratitude;   Thompson Chain Reference - Evil;   Evil for Good;   Gratitude-Ingratitude;   Ingratitude;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Malice;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Reward;   Reward (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They repay me evil for good,making me desolate.
Hebrew Names Version
They reward me evil for good, To the bereaving of my soul.
King James Version
They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
English Standard Version
They repay me evil for good; my soul is bereft.
New Century Version
They repay me with evil for the good I have done, and they make me very sad.
New English Translation
They repay me evil for the good I have done; I am overwhelmed with sorrow.
Amplified Bible
They repay me evil for good, To the sorrow of my soul.
New American Standard Bible
They repay me evil for good, To the bereavement of my soul.
World English Bible
They reward me evil for good, To the bereaving of my soul.
Geneva Bible (1587)
They rewarded me euill for good, to haue spoyled my soule.
Legacy Standard Bible
They repay me evil for good,It is bereavement to my soul.
Berean Standard Bible
They repay me evil for good, to the bereavement of my soul.
Contemporary English Version
They repay evil for good, and I feel all alone.
Complete Jewish Bible
They repay me evil for good; it makes me feel desolate as a parent bereaved.
Darby Translation
They reward me evil for good, [to] the bereavement of my soul.
Easy-to-Read Version
They pay me back evil for the good I have done. They make me so very sad.
George Lamsa Translation
They rewarded me evil for good, and they destroyed my reputation among men.
Good News Translation
They pay me back evil for good, and I sink in despair.
Lexham English Bible
They repay me evil in place of good. It is bereavement to my soul.
Literal Translation
they rewarded me evil for good, bereaving my soul.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They rewarde me euell for good, to the greate discomforth of my soule.
American Standard Version
They reward me evil for good, To the bereaving of my soul.
Bible in Basic English
They gave me back evil for good, troubling my soul.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
They repay me evil for good; bereavement is come to my soul.
King James Version (1611)
They rewarded mee euill for good, to the spoiling of my soule.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
They rewarded me euill for good: to the great discomfort of my soule.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They rewarded me evil for good, and bereavement to my soul.
English Revised Version
They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei yeldiden to me yuels for goodis; bareynnesse to my soule.
Update Bible Version
They reward me evil for good, [To] the bereaving of my soul.
Webster's Bible Translation
They rewarded me evil for good [to] the spoiling of my soul.
New King James Version
They reward me evil for good, To the sorrow of my soul.
New Living Translation
They repay me evil for good. I am sick with despair.
New Life Bible
They pay me what is bad in return for what is good. My soul is sad.
New Revised Standard
They repay me evil for good; my soul is forlorn.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
They repay me evil for good, Bereaving my soul.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(34-12) They repaid me evil for good: to the depriving me of my soul.
Revised Standard Version
They requite me evil for good; my soul is forlorn.
Young's Literal Translation
They pay me evil for good, bereaving my soul,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They repay me evil for good, To the bereavement of my soul.

Contextual Overview

11Hostile accusers appear out of nowhere, they stand up and badger me. They pay me back misery for mercy, leaving my soul empty. 13When they were sick, I dressed in black; instead of eating, I prayed. My prayers were like lead in my gut, like I'd lost my best friend, my brother. I paced, distraught as a motherless child, hunched and heavyhearted. 15But when I was down they threw a party! All the nameless riffraff of the town came chanting insults about me. Like barbarians desecrating a shrine, they destroyed my reputation.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

They: Psalms 38:20, Psalms 109:3-5, 1 Samuel 19:4, 1 Samuel 19:5, 1 Samuel 19:15, 1 Samuel 22:13, 1 Samuel 22:14, Proverbs 17:13, Jeremiah 18:20, John 10:32

spoiling: Heb. depriving, 1 Samuel 20:31-33, Luke 23:21-23

my soul: Or, "my life," as the word nephesh frequently denotes.

Reciprocal: Genesis 44:4 - Wherefore 1 Samuel 25:21 - he hath requited 1 Chronicles 19:4 - took David's 2 Chronicles 20:11 - how they reward us Psalms 17:9 - deadly enemies Psalms 69:4 - being Psalms 109:4 - For my Matthew 26:59 - sought

Cross-References

Genesis 12:7
God appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your children." Abram built an altar at the place God had appeared to him.
Genesis 28:13
Then God was right before him, saying, "I am God , the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. I'm giving the ground on which you are sleeping to you and to your descendants. Your descendants will be as the dust of the Earth; they'll stretch from west to east and from north to south. All the families of the Earth will bless themselves in you and your descendants. Yes. I'll stay with you, I'll protect you wherever you go, and I'll bring you back to this very ground. I'll stick with you until I've done everything I promised you."
Genesis 35:1
God spoke to Jacob: "Go back to Bethel. Stay there and build an altar to the God who revealed himself to you when you were running for your life from your brother Esau."
Genesis 35:4
They turned over to Jacob all the alien gods they'd been holding on to, along with their lucky-charm earrings. Jacob buried them under the oak tree in Shechem. Then they set out. A paralyzing fear descended on all the surrounding villages so that they were unable to pursue the sons of Jacob.
Genesis 35:14
Jacob set up a stone pillar on the spot where God had spoken with him. He poured a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil. Jacob dedicated the place where God had spoken with him, Bethel (God's-House).
Genesis 35:21
Israel kept on his way and set up camp at Migdal Eder. While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went and slept with his father's concubine, Bilhah. And Israel heard of what he did. There were twelve sons of Jacob. The sons by Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn Simeon Levi Judah Issachar Zebulun. The sons by Rachel: Joseph Benjamin. The sons by Bilhah, Rachel's maid: Dan Naphtali. The sons by Zilpah, Leah's maid: Gad Asher. These were Jacob's sons, born to him in Paddan Aram. Finally, Jacob made it back home to his father Isaac at Mamre in Kiriath Arba, present-day Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had lived. Isaac was now 180 years old. Isaac breathed his last and died—an old man full of years. He was buried with his family by his sons Esau and Jacob.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They rewarded me evil for good,.... For the good David did in killing Goliath, and slaying his ten thousands of the Philistines, and thereby saving his king and country, Saul and his courtiers envied him, and sought to slay him: so our Lord Jesus Christ, for all the good he did to the Jews, by healing their bodies of diseases, and preaching the Gospel to them for the benefit of their souls, was rewarded with reproaches and persecutions, and at last with the shameful death of the cross; and in like manner are his people used; but this is an evil that shall not go unpunished; see Proverbs 17:13. It is added,

[to] the spoiling of my soul; or "to the bereaving of it" t; causing it to be fatherless; that is, to the bereaving it of its joy, peace, and comfort; so fatherless is put for comfortless, John 14:18; or to the taking away of his soul, which being separated from the body, its companion is left alone, as one that is fatherless.

t שכול "orbitatem", Montanus, Vatablus, Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis so Ainsworth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They rewarded me evil for good - They recompensed, or returned evil instead of good. The manner in which they did it he states in the following verses.

To the spoiling of my soul - Margin, “depriving.” The Hebrew word means “the being forsaken,” or “abandoned.” The idea is, that owing to this conduct he was forsaken or abandoned by all in whom he might have put confidence.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 35:12. To the spoiling of my soulTo destroy my life; so נפש nephesh should be translated in a multitude of places, where our translators have used the word soul.


 
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