The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the faction of Abiram.
Psalm 56:1 - New Revised Standard Version Be gracious to me, O God, for people trample on me; all day long foes oppress me; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; He fighting daily oppresseth me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition BE MERCIFUL and gracious to me, O God, for man would trample me or devour me; all the day long the adversary oppresses me. American Standard Version (1901) Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: All the day long he fighting oppresseth me. Common English Bible God, have mercy on me because I’m being trampled. All day long the enemy oppresses me. Catholic Public Domain Version Unto the end. May you not destroy. Of David, with the inscription of a title, when he fled from Saul into a cave. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title, when he fled from Saul into the cave. |
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the faction of Abiram.
then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;
who struck Egypt through their firstborn, for his steadfast love endures forever;
but overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea, for his steadfast love endures forever;
In your steadfast love cut off my enemies, and destroy all my adversaries, for I am your servant.
You will make them like a fiery furnace when you appear. The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath, and fire will consume them.
When evildoers assail me to devour my flesh— my adversaries and foes— they shall stumble and fall.
Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eye wastes away from grief, my soul and body also.
Do not let them say to themselves, “Aha, we have our heart's desire.” Do not let them say, “We have swallowed you up.”
Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge people fairly?
Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; protect me from those who rise up against me.
My God in his steadfast love will meet me; my God will let me look in triumph on my enemies.
O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses; you have been angry; now restore us!
like Sheol let us swallow them alive and whole, like those who go down to the Pit.
All your enemies open their mouths against you; they hiss, they gnash their teeth, they cry: “We have devoured her! Ah, this is the day we longed for; at last we have seen it!”
The Lord has destroyed without mercy all the dwellings of Jacob; in his wrath he has broken down the strongholds of daughter Judah; he has brought down to the ground in dishonor the kingdom and its rulers.
The Lord has become like an enemy; he has destroyed Israel; He has destroyed all its palaces, laid in ruins its strongholds, and multiplied in daughter Judah mourning and lamentation.
Israel is swallowed up; now they are among the nations as a useless vessel.
When this perishable body puts on imperishability, and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him; and the commanders of the Philistines said to him, “Send the man back, so that he may return to the place that you have assigned to him; he shall not go down with us to battle, or else he may become an adversary to us in the battle. For how could this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Would it not be with the heads of the men here?