Psalm 118:12 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹² They surrounded me like bees, they blazed like a fire of thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them off!

More versions

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 godless men are all like thorns that are thrown away; for they cannot be taken 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 fulfil 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 Lord, how majestic 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 fools; this also is vanity.

Isaiah 27:4

I have no wrath. Would that I had thorns and briers to battle! I would set out against them, I would burn them up together.

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 entangled thorns they are consumed, like dry stubble.

Deuteronomy 1:44

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

1 Samuel 17:45

Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a 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.