Psalm 118:12 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹² 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² 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

¹² 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)

¹² 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

¹² 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

¹² Blessed are you, O Lord. Teach me your justifications.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy justifications.

Psalm 118:12 Cross References

2 Samuel 23:6

But the sons of Be´li-al shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:

Psalm 20:1

The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;

Psalm 20:5

We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the Lord fulfil all thy petitions.

Psalm 58:9

Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

Psalm 8:9

O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

Ecclesiastes 7:6

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

Isaiah 27:4

Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

Isaiah 33:12

And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

Nahum 1:10

For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

Deuteronomy 1:44

And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Se´ir, even unto Hormah.

1 Samuel 17:45

Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.