Psalm 118:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They surrounded me like bees; they blazed like a fire of thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them off!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: For in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

They swarmed about me like bees, they blaze up and are extinguished like a fire of thorns; in the name of the Lord I will cut them off! [Deut. 1:44.]

American Standard Version (1901)

They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: In the name of Jehovah I will cut them off.

Common English Bible

They surrounded me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns. I cut them down in the LORD’s name!

Catholic Public Domain Version

Blessed are you, O Lord. Teach me your justifications.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy justifications.

Psalm 118:12 Cross References

2 Samuel 23:6

But the godless are all like thorns that are thrown away, for they cannot be picked up with the hand;

Psalm 20:1

The Lord answer you in the day of trouble! The name of the God of Jacob protect you!

Psalm 20:5

May we shout for joy over your victory and in the name of our God set up our banners. May the Lord fulfill all your petitions.

Psalm 58:9

Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!

Psalm 8:9

O Lord, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Ecclesiastes 7:6

For like the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of fools; this also is vanity.

Isaiah 27:4

I have no wrath. If it gives me thorns and briers, I will march to battle against it. I will burn it up.

Isaiah 33:12

And the peoples will be as if burned to lime, like thorns cut down that are burned in the fire.”

Nahum 1:10

Like thorns they are entangled; like drunkards they are drunk; they are consumed like dry straw.

Deuteronomy 1:44

The Amorites who lived in that hill country then came out against you and chased you as bees do. They beat you down in Seir as far as Hormah.

1 Samuel 17:45

But David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.