Psalms 35:12

The NET Bible®

They repay me evil for the good I have done; I am overwhelmed with sorrow.

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.

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

¹¹ Violent men perjure themselves, and falsely accuse me. ¹² They repay me evil for the good I have done; I am overwhelmed with sorrow. ¹³ When they were sick, I wore sackcloth, and refrained from eating food. (If I am lying, may my prayers go unanswered!) ¹⁴ I mourned for them as I would for a friend or my brother. I bowed down in sorrow as if I were mourning for my mother. ¹⁵ But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; they gathered together to ambush me. They tore at me without stopping to rest. ¹⁶ When I tripped, they taunted me relentlessly, and tried to bite me.

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
The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." So Abram built an altar there to the Lord , who had appeared to him.

Genesis 15:18
That day the Lord made a covenant with Abram: "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River—

Genesis 28:13
and the Lord stood at its top. He said, "I am the Lord , the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the ground you are lying on.

Genesis 35:1
Then God said to Jacob, "Go up at once to Bethel and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."

Genesis 35:3
Let us go up at once to Bethel. Then I will make an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress and has been with me wherever I went."

Genesis 35:4
So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their possession and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem

Genesis 35:14
So Jacob set up a sacred stone pillar in the place where God spoke with him. He poured out a drink offering on it, and then he poured oil on it.

Genesis 35:17
When her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for you are having another son."

Genesis 35:21
Then Israel traveled on and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder.

Genesis 48:4
He said to me, ‘I am going to make you fruitful and will multiply you. I will make you into a group of nations, and I will give this land to your descendants as an everlasting possession.'

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 soul — To destroy my life; so נפש nephesh should be translated in a multitude of places, where our translators have used the word soul.