Psalm 140:5 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁵ 2 I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, and will revenge the poor.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set gins for me. Selah.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ The proud have hidden a snare for me; they have spread cords as a net by the wayside, they have set traps for me. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set gins for me. [Selah

Common English Bible

⁵ Arrogant people have laid a trap for me with ropes. They’ve spread out a net alongside the road. They’ve set snares for me. Selah

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ The just one will correct me with mercy, and he will rebuke me. But do not allow the oil of the sinner to fatten my head. For my prayer will still be toward their good will.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ The just shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head. For my prayer also shall still be against the things with which they are well pleased:

Psalm 140:5 Cross References

Job 18:9

4 Let his confidence be rooted out of his tabernacle, and let destruction tread upon him like a king.

Psalm 119:110

17 Help me, and I shall be saved: and I will meditate always on thy justifications.

Psalm 119:69

6 O! let thy mercy be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.

Psalm 119:85

2 Unless thy law had been my meditation, I had then perhaps perished in my abjection.

Psalm 142:3

For the enemy hath persecuted my soul: he hath brought down my life to the earth. He hath made me to dwell in darkness as those that have been dead of old:

Psalm 31:4

1 I am become a reproach among all my enemies, and very much to my neighbours; and a fear to my acquaintance. They that saw me without fled from me.

Psalm 35:7

4 As a neighbour and as an own brother, so did I please : as one mourning and sorrowful so was I humbled.

Psalm 36:11

And he will bring forth thy justice as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

Psalm 43:1

Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them : thou didst afflict the people and cast them out.

Psalm 57:6

For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.

Proverbs 24:15

2 For their destruction shall rise suddenly: and who knoweth the ruin of both?

Proverbs 29:5

2 A prince that gladly heareth lying words, hath all his servants wicked.

Jeremiah 18:18

And thou shalt say: Hear the word of the Lord, O ye kings of Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold I will bring an affliction upon this place: so that whoever shall hear it, his ears shall tingle:

Jeremiah 18:20

And they have built the high places of Baalim, to burn their children with fire for a holocaust to Baalim: which I did not command, nor speak of, neither did it once come into my mind.

Jeremiah 18:22

And I will defeat the counsel of Juda and of Jerusalem in this place: and I will destroy them with the sword in the sight of their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and I will give their carcasses to be meat for the fowls of the air, and for the beasts of the earth.