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Christian Standard Bible ®

Psalms 27:12

Do not give me over to the will of my foes,for false witnesses rise up against me,breathing violence.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   David;   False Teachers;   Thompson Chain Reference - Cruelty;   Kindness-Cruelty;  

Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - False Witness;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Breath;   Cruel;   Enemy;   Psalms, Book of;   Witness;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, For false witnesses have risen up against me, Such as breathe out cruelty.
King James Version
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
English Standard Version
Give me not up to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence.
New Century Version
Do not hand me over to my enemies, because they tell lies about me and say they will hurt me.
New English Translation
Do not turn me over to my enemies, for false witnesses who want to destroy me testify against me.
Amplified Bible
Do not give me up to the will of my adversaries, For false witnesses have come against me; They breathe out violence.
New American Standard Bible
Do not turn me over to the desire of my enemies, For false witnesses have risen against me, And the violent witness.
World English Bible
Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, For false witnesses have risen up against me, Such as breathe out cruelty.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Giue me not vnto the lust of mine aduersaries: for there are false witnesses risen vp against me, and such as speake cruelly.
Legacy Standard Bible
Do not give me over to the desire of my adversaries,For false witnesses have risen against me,And such as breathe out violence.
Berean Standard Bible
Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.
Contemporary English Version
Don't let them do to me what they want. People tell lies about me and make terrible threats,
Complete Jewish Bible
don't give me up to the whims of my foes; for false witnesses have risen against me, also those who are breathing violence.
Darby Translation
Deliver me not over to the will of mine adversaries; for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out violence.
Easy-to-Read Version
My enemies have attacked me. They have told lies about me and have tried to hurt me.
George Lamsa Translation
Deliver me not over into the hands of my enemies; for false witnesses are risen up against me and have spoken cruelly.
Good News Translation
Don't abandon me to my enemies, who attack me with lies and threats.
Lexham English Bible
Do not give me over to the desire of my enemies, because false witnesses have arisen against me, and each breathing out violence.
Literal Translation
Do not give me into the soul of my foes; for false witnesses have risen up against me, and the ones breathing out violence.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Delyuer me not into the wylles of myne aduersaries, for there are false wytnesses rysen vp against me, and they ymagyn myschefe.
American Standard Version
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine adversaries: For false witnesses are risen up against me, And such as breathe out cruelty.
Bible in Basic English
Do not give me into their hands, because false witnesses have come out against me, and men breathing destruction.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine adversaries; for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out violence.
King James Version (1611)
Deliuer me not ouer vnto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen vp against me, and such as breath out crueltie.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Deliuer me not into mine aduersaries handes: for there are false witnesses rysen vp against me, and such as speake wrong.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Deliver me not over to the desire of them that afflict me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me, and injustice has lied within herself.
English Revised Version
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine adversaries: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Bitake thou not me in to the soules of hem, that troblen me; for wickid witnessis han rise ayens me, and wickydnesse liede to it silf.
Update Bible Version
Don't deliver me over to the will of my adversaries: For false witnesses have risen up against me, And such as breathe out cruelty.
Webster's Bible Translation
Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies: for false witnesses have risen against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
New King James Version
Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries; For false witnesses have risen against me, And such as breathe out violence.
New Living Translation
Do not let me fall into their hands. For they accuse me of things I've never done; with every breath they threaten me with violence.
New Life Bible
Do not give me over to the desire of those who hate me. For people who tell lies about me rise against me, and breathe a desire to hurt me.
New Revised Standard
Do not give me up to the will of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen against me, and they are breathing out violence.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Do not give me up unto the desire of mine adversaries, for there have risen up against me witnesses that are false, and he that fanneth up violence.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(26-12) Deliver me not over to the will of them that trouble me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me; and iniquity hath lied to itself.
Revised Standard Version
Give me not up to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence.
Young's Literal Translation
Give me not to the will of my adversaries, For risen against me have false witnesses, And they breathe out violence to me.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Do not deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, For false witnesses have risen against me, And such as breathe out violence.

Contextual Overview

7Lord, hear my voice when I call;be gracious to me and answer me. 8My heart says this about you:“Seek his face.”Lord, I will seek your face. 9Do not hide your face from me;do not turn your servant away in anger.You have been my helper;do not leave me or abandon me,God of my salvation. 10Even if my father and mother abandon me,the Lord cares for me. 11Because of my adversaries,show me your way, Lord,and lead me on a level path. 12Do not give me over to the will of my foes,for false witnesses rise up against me,breathing violence.13I am certain that I will see the Lord’s goodnessin the land of the living. 14Wait for the Lord;be strong, and let your heart be courageous.Wait for the Lord.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

will: Psalms 31:8, Psalms 35:25, Psalms 38:16, Psalms 41:11, Psalms 140:8

false: Psalms 35:11, Exodus 20:16, 1 Samuel 22:9, 1 Samuel 22:10, 1 Samuel 26:19, 2 Samuel 16:7, 2 Samuel 16:8, Matthew 26:59, Matthew 26:60, Acts 6:11-13

breathe: Psalms 25:19, Acts 9:1, Acts 26:11

Reciprocal: Exodus 23:1 - an unrighteous witness Deuteronomy 19:16 - a false witness 1 Kings 21:13 - the men of Belial Job 16:11 - turned Job 35:14 - trust Psalms 41:2 - thou wilt not Psalms 55:3 - for they Proverbs 6:19 - A false Jeremiah 37:14 - said Micah 7:7 - wait Mark 14:55 - sought Acts 6:13 - set Acts 25:7 - and laid

Cross-References

Genesis 9:25
he said:
Genesis 25:27
When the boys grew up, Esau became an expert hunter, an outdoorsman, but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.
Genesis 27:21
Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau or not?”
Genesis 27:22
So Jacob came closer to his father Isaac. When he touched him, he said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
Genesis 27:36
So he said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice now. He took my birthright, and look, now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”
Deuteronomy 27:18
‘The one who leads a blind person astray on the road is cursed.’
Job 12:16
True wisdom and power belong to him.The deceived and the deceiver are his.
Jeremiah 48:10
The one who doesthe Lord’s business deceitfully is cursed,and the one who withholdshis sword from bloodshed is cursed.
Malachi 1:14
“The deceiver is cursed who has an acceptable male in his flock and makes a vow but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says the Lord of Armies, “and my name will be feared among the nations.
2 Corinthians 6:8
through glory and dishonor, through slander and good report; regarded as deceivers, yet true;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies,.... It is a dreadful thing for a man to be given up to his own heart's lusts, and to be delivered up into the hands of Satan; who would fain have even the people of God themselves in his hands, that he might distress them at pleasure, if not destroy them; and also to be suffered to fall into the hands of wicked men, whose tender mercies are cruel;

for false witnesses are risen up against me; laying to his charge, that he sought to take away from Saul his crown and kingdom, and even his life, 1 Samuel 24:9;

and such as breathe out cruelty; as Doeg the Edomite, whose tongue was as a sharp razor, and by whose hands four score and five priests were slain, on account of David's being supplied with bread by Ahimelech; the word is in the singular number; see Psalms 52:1; compare with this clause Acts 9:1; and Horace's phrase, "Spirabat amores" l.

l Carmin. l. 4. Ode. 13. v. 19.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies - Let them not accomplish their desires in regard to me; let them not be able to carry out their purposes. The word here rendered “will” means properly “soul,” but it is used here evidently to denote “wish” or “desire.” Compare Psalms 35:25.

For false witnesses are risen up against me - People who would lay false charges against him, or who would wrongfully accuse him. They charged him with crimes which he never committed, and they persecuted him as if he were guilty of what they alleged against him.

And such as breathe out cruelty - That is, they meditate violence or cruel treatment. They are intent on this; they pant for it. Saul of Tarsus thus “breathed out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord.” See the notes at Acts 9:1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 27:12. Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemiesTo their soul benephesh; their whole soul thirsts for my destruction. Let them not be gratified. They have suborned witnesses against me, but they are false witnesses: unmask their wickedness, and confound their counsels.


 
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