Psalms 105:15

New King James Version

Saying, "Do not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Do not touch my anointed ones,or harm my prophets.”

Hebrew Names Version
"Don't touch my anointed ones. Do my prophets no harm."

King James Version
Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

English Standard Version
saying, "Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!"

New Century Version
He said, "Don't touch my chosen people, and don't harm my prophets."

New English Translation
saying, "Don't touch my chosen ones! Don't harm my prophets!"

Amplified Bible
"Do not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm."

New American Standard Bible
"Do not touch My anointed ones, And do not harm My prophets."

World English Bible
"Don't touch my anointed ones. Do my prophets no harm."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Touche not mine anointed, and doe my Prophets no harme.

Legacy Standard Bible
"Do not touch My anointed ones,And to My prophets do no evil."

Berean Standard Bible
"Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!"

Contemporary English Version
and telling them, "Don't touch my chosen leaders or harm my prophets!"

Complete Jewish Bible
"Don't touch my anointed ones or do my prophets harm!"

Darby Translation
[Saying,] Touch not mine anointed ones, and do my prophets no harm.

Easy-to-Read Version
He said, "Don't hurt my chosen people. Don't harm my prophets."

George Lamsa Translation
That they might touch not his anointed, and do his prophets no harm.

Good News Translation
"Don't harm my chosen servants; do not touch my prophets."

Lexham English Bible
"Do not touch my anointed ones, nor harm my prophets."

Literal Translation
saying , Touch not My anointed; and, Do My prophets no harm.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Touch not myne anoynted, do my prophetes no harme.

American Standard Version
Saying, Touch not mine anointed ones, And do my prophets no harm.

Bible in Basic English
Saying, Put not your hand on those who have been marked with my holy oil, and do my prophets no wrong.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Touch not Mine anointed ones, and do My prophets no harm.'

King James Version (1611)
Saying, Touch not mine anointed; and doe my Prophets no harme.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Touche not mine annoynted: and triumph not ouer my prophetes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
saying, Touch not my anointed ones; and do my prophets no harm.

English Revised Version
Saying, Touch not mine anointed ones, and do my prophets no harm.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Nile ye touche my cristis; and nyle ye do wickidli among my prophetis.

Update Bible Version
[Saying], Don't touch my anointed ones, And do my prophets no harm.

Webster's Bible Translation
[Saying], Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

New Living Translation
"Do not touch my chosen people, and do not hurt my prophets."

New Life Bible
He said, "Do not touch My chosen ones. And do not hurt those who speak for Me."

New Revised Standard
saying, "Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ye may not touch mine Anointed ones, And, to my Prophets, may ye do no wrong.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(104-15) Touch ye not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets.

Revised Standard Version
saying, "Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!"

Young's Literal Translation
`Strike not against Mine anointed, And to My prophets do not evil.'

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Do not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm."

Contextual Overview

⁸ He remembers His covenant forever, The word which He commanded, for a thousand generations, ⁹ The covenant which He made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac, ¹⁰ And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel as an everlasting covenant, ¹¹ Saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan As the allotment of your inheritance," ¹² When they were few in number, Indeed very few, and strangers in it. ¹³ When they went from one nation to another, From one kingdom to another people, ¹⁴ He permitted no one to do them wrong; Yes, He rebuked kings for their sakes, ¹⁵ Saying, "Do not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm." ¹⁶ Moreover He called for a famine in the land; He destroyed all the provision of bread. ¹⁷ He sent a man before them-- Joseph--who was sold as a slave.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Touch: Genesis 26:11, Zechariah 2:8

mine: 1 Kings 19:16, 1 John 2:27

and do: Genesis 20:7, Genesis 27:39, Genesis 27:40, Genesis 48:19, Genesis 48:20, Genesis 49:8-33

Reciprocal: Genesis 12:17 - General Genesis 12:20 - General Genesis 31:7 - God Genesis 31:24 - Take heed Genesis 49:1 - Gather Numbers 12:6 - a prophet Ruth 2:9 - touch thee 1 Samuel 24:10 - the Lord's 1 Samuel 26:9 - who can stretch 2 Samuel 1:14 - stretch forth 1 Kings 13:4 - Lay hold 2 Kings 1:10 - If I be a man 1 Chronicles 16:22 - Touch Job 1:11 - touch Isaiah 10:27 - because Jeremiah 2:3 - all that Jeremiah 12:14 - that Jeremiah 39:12 - do him Habakkuk 3:13 - with Matthew 18:6 - offend Matthew 25:45 - Inasmuch

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Saying, Touch not mine anointed,.... Or, "mine anointed ones"; my Christs, as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, were, who, though not anointed with material oil, yet were all that, that such were, who in later times were anointed with it. They were prophets, priests, and kings; and which all met in one person, particularly in Abraham,

Genesis 20:7, besides, they were anointed with the oil of grace, with an unction from the Holy One, with the Holy Ghost, and his gifts and graces, as all true believers are: they are the Lord's Christs, or his anointed ones; which stand before him, and have the name of Christians from hence. These the Lord will not have touched, so as to be hurt; they are sacred persons: they are near unto God, in union with him;

and he that toucheth him toucheth the apple of his eye; so dear are they to him.

And do my prophets no harm; so Abraham is expressly called a prophet,

Genesis 20:7, and so were Isaac and Jacob; men to whom the Lord spoke familiarly in dreams and visions, as he used to do with prophets; and who taught and made known the mind and will of God to others, as well as foretold things to come; they being the Lord's servants, his prophets, they were revealed unto them, Numbers 12:7. These the Lord will have no harm done to them; he guards them by his power; he holds them in his right hand; and covers them under the shadow of his wing.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Saying, Touch not mine anointed - That is, This was the language of his “providence.” It was as though God had said this. It is not meant that this was said in so many words, but this is the “poetic” form of representing the dealings of Providence. Compare Genesis 26:11. The word “anointed” here means that God had, as it were, set them apart to his service, or that they were to him as kings, and priests, and prophets, sacred people, belonging to God. The “language” is not found in the Old Testament as applied to the patriarchs, but the “idea” is fairly implied there, that they belonged to God as sacred and holy men.

And do my prophets no harm - As if God had thus spoken to them, and called them prophets. That is, they belonged to God as a sacred order: they were separate from other men, and God regarded them as his own.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 105:15. Touch not mine anointed — It is supposed that the patriarchs are here intended; but the whole people of Israel may be meant. They were a kingdom of priests and kings unto God; and prophets, priests, and kings were always anointed.