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World English Bible

Psalms 109:3

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Enemy;   Malice;   Quotations and Allusions;   Slander;  

Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
They surround me with hateful words and fight against me for no reason.
English Revised Version
They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
Update Bible Version
They have compassed me about also with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.
New Century Version
They have said hateful things about me and attack me for no reason.
New English Translation
They surround me and say hateful things; they attack me for no reason.
Webster's Bible Translation
They encompassed me also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
Amplified Bible
They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And have fought against me without a cause.
English Standard Version
They encircle me with words of hate, and attack me without cause.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei spaken ayens me with a gileful tunge, and thei cumpassiden me with wordis of hatrede; and fouyten ayens me with out cause.
Berean Standard Bible
They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.
Contemporary English Version
and hateful things are said for no reason.
American Standard Version
They have compassed me about also with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.
Bible in Basic English
Words of hate are round about me; they have made war against me without cause.
Complete Jewish Bible
surrounded me with hateful words, and attacked me without cause.
Darby Translation
And with words of hatred have they encompassed me; and they fight against me without a cause.
Easy-to-Read Version
They are saying hateful things about me. They are attacking me for no reason.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
King James Version (1611)
They compassed mee about also with wordes of hatred: and fought against me without a cause.
New Life Bible
They have gathered around me with words of hate. They fought against me for no reason.
New Revised Standard
They beset me with words of hate, and attack me without cause.
Geneva Bible (1587)
They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
George Lamsa Translation
They have spoken against me with a lying tongue and with a hateful voice, and have fought against me without a cause.
Good News Translation
and they say evil things about me, attacking me for no reason.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, with words of hatred, have they surrounded me, and have made war upon me without cause:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(108-3) They have spoken against me with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; and have fought against me without cause.
Revised Standard Version
They beset me with words of hate, and attack me without cause.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they haue compassed me about with hatefull wordes: and fought against me without a cause.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they have compassed me with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
Christian Standard Bible®
They surround me with hateful wordsand attack me without cause.
Hebrew Names Version
They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.
King James Version
They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
Lexham English Bible
They also surround me with words of hate, and fight me without cause.
Literal Translation
And they hemmed me in with words of hating; and they fought against me without a cause.
Young's Literal Translation
They have compassed me about, And they fight me without cause.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For the loue that I had vnto them, they take now my contrary parte, but I geue my self vnto prayer.
New American Standard Bible
They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And have fought against me without cause.
New King James Version
They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And fought against me without cause.
Legacy Standard Bible
They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,And fought against me without cause.

Contextual Overview

1 <> God of my praise, don't remain silent, 2 For they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue. 3 They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause. 4 In return for my love, they are my adversaries; But I am in prayer. 5 They have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred for my love.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

compassed: Psalms 17:11, Psalms 22:12, Psalms 88:17, 2 Samuel 16:7, 2 Samuel 16:8, Hosea 11:12

fought: Psalms 35:7, Psalms 35:20, Psalms 59:3, Psalms 59:4, Psalms 69:4, 1 Samuel 19:4, 1 Samuel 19:5, 1 Samuel 26:18, 2 Samuel 15:12, John 15:24, John 15:25

Reciprocal: Numbers 20:6 - they fell 1 Samuel 25:21 - he hath requited 2 Samuel 15:31 - O Lord Psalms 25:3 - without Psalms 35:12 - They Psalms 35:19 - that hate Psalms 38:20 - render Psalms 55:11 - deceit Psalms 59:7 - swords Psalms 64:2 - secret Psalms 69:14 - let me Psalms 89:23 - plague Psalms 119:69 - proud Psalms 119:78 - without Psalms 144:8 - mouth Lamentations 3:52 - without Matthew 5:22 - without Mark 3:6 - Pharisees Luke 6:12 - that

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They compassed me about also with words of hatred,.... They surrounded him as he hung on the cross, and expressed their malice and hatred against him; then was he enclosed with these spiteful snarling dogs, and encompassed by them as with so many bees, who everyone left their sting in him, Psalms 22:16.

And fought against me without a cause: they were of an hostile spirit, enemies and enmity itself against him; fought against him both with words and blows, with their tongues and with their fists; sought his life, and at length took it away; he was attacked by the body of the Jewish nation, and by the whole posse of devils; and all this without any cause or just reason: he gave them no occasion for this enmity and malice, and opposition to him; and it was in the issue without effect, it was in vain and to no purpose; for though they gained their point in putting him to death, yet he rose again a triumphant Conqueror over them all.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They compassed me about also with words of hatred - They attacked me on every side; they assailed me, not merely in one form and direction, but in every form, and in every direction. I could turn no way - I could go nowhere - where I did not encounter these slanderous reports.

And fought against me without a cause - Contended against me, or fought against me, with “words.” They sought to do me all the harm they could. The phrase “without a cause “means that he had given them no occasion for this conduct; he had not wronged them; it was mere malignity. See Psalms 35:7; Psalms 69:4. Compare John 15:25.


 
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