Psalm 31:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁷ Let me not he ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: Let the wicked be ashamed, let them be silent in Sheol.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: Let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Let me not be put to shame, O Lord, or disappointed, for I am calling upon You; let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol (the place of the dead).

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Let me not be put to shame, O Jehovah; for I have called upon thee: Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ LORD, don’t let me be put to shame because I have cried out to you. Let the wicked be put to shame; let them be silenced in death’s domain!

Psalm 31:17 Cross References

Psalm 115:17

The dead praise not the LORD, Neither any that go down into silence;

Psalm 31:1

In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: Deliver me in thy righteousness.

Psalm 34:5

They looked unto him, and were lightened: And their faces shall never be confounded.

Psalm 35:26

Let them be ashamed and confounded together that rejoice at mine hurt: Let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

Psalm 35:4

Let them be ashamed and brought to dishonour that seek after my soul: Let them be turned back and confounded that devise my hurt.

Psalm 4:7

Thou hast put gladness in my heart, More than they have when their corn and their wine are increased.

Psalm 6:10

All mine enemies shall be ashamed and sore vexed: They shall turn back, they shall be ashamed suddenly.

Psalm 71:24

My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: For they are ashamed, for they are confounded, that seek my hurt.

Psalm 80:4

O LORD God of hosts, How long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

Psalm 80:8

Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt: Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it.

Psalm 94:17

Unless the LORD had been my help, My soul had soon dwelt in silence.

Jeremiah 20:11

But the LORD is with me as a mighty one and a terrible: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonour which shall never be forgotten.

Daniel 12:2

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

1 Samuel 2:9

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.