Psalm 70:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Let them be put to shame and confusion who seek my life! Let them be turned back and brought to dishonor who desire my hurt!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: Let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Let them be put to shame and confounded that seek and demand my life; let them be turned backward and brought to confusion and dishonor who desire and delight in my hurt.

American Standard Version (1901)

Let them be put to shame and confounded That seek after my soul: Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor That delight in my hurt.

Common English Bible

Let those who seek my life be ashamed and humiliated! Let them fall back and be disgraced— those people who delight in my downfall!

Catholic Public Domain Version

Free me by your justice, and rescue me. Incline your ear to me, and save me.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

deliver me in thy justice, and rescue me. Incline thy ear unto me, and save me.

Psalm 70:2 Cross References

Psalm 109:29

May my accusers be clothed with dishonor; may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a mantle!

Psalm 141:1

I call upon thee, O Lord; make haste to me! Give ear to my voice, when I call to thee!

Psalm 22:12

Many bulls encompass me, strong bulls of Bashan surround me;

Psalm 22:20

Deliver my soul from the sword, my life from the power of the dog!

Psalm 35:26

Let them be put to shame and confusion altogether who rejoice at my calamity! Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me!

Psalm 35:4

Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek after my life! Let them be turned back and confounded who devise evil against me!

Psalm 40:14

Let them be put to shame and confusion altogether who seek to snatch away my life; let them be turned back and brought to dishonor who desire my hurt!

Psalm 6:10

All my enemies shall be ashamed and sorely troubled; they shall turn back, and be put to shame in a moment.

Psalm 71:12

O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me!

Psalm 71:13

May my accusers be put to shame and consumed; with scorn and disgrace may they be covered who seek my hurt.

Isaiah 28:13

Therefore the word of the Lord will be to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

Isaiah 41:11

Behold, all who are incensed against you shall be put to shame and confounded; those who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish.

John 18:6

When he said to them, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground.