I Stretch Out My Hands to You
Psalms 143:12
In 11 translations
- BSB
- And in Your loving devotion, cut off my enemies. Destroy all who afflict me, for I am Your servant.
- KJV
- And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.
- WEB
- In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, for I am your servant.
- ASV
- And in thy lovingkindness cut off mine enemies, And destroy all them that afflict my soul; For I am thy servant.
- LSV
- And in Your kindness cut off my enemies, || And have destroyed all the adversaries of my soul, || For I [am] Your servant!
- YLT
- And in Thy kindness cuttest off mine enemies, And hast destroyed all the adversaries of my soul, For I [am] Thy servant!
- DBY
- And in thy loving-kindness cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that oppress my soul: for I am thy servant.
- DRC142:12
- And in thy mercy thou wilt destroy my enemies. And thou wilt cut off all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.
- GNV
- And for thy mercy slay mine enemies, and destrie all them that oppresse my soule: for I am thy seruant.
- JPS
- And in Thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that harass my soul; for I am Thy servant.
- LXXE142:12
- And in thy mercy thou wilt destroy mine enemies, and wilt destroy all those that afflict my soul; for I am thy servant.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וּֽבְחַסְדְּךָ֮ תַּצְמִ֪ית אֹ֫יְבָ֥י וְֽ֭הַאֲבַדְתָּ כָּל־צֹרֲרֵ֣י נַפְשִׁ֑י כִּ֝֗י אֲנִ֣י עַבְדֶּֽךָ׃
- LXX-Br142:12
- Καὶ ἐν τῷ ἐλέει σου ἐξολοθρεύσεις τοὺς ἐχθρούς μου, καὶ ἀπολεῖς πάντας τοὺς θλίβοντας τὴν ψυχήν μου, ὅτι δοῦλός σου εἰμὶ ἐγώ.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Psalms 54:5He will reward my enemies with evil. In Your faithfulness, destroy them.
- Psalms 116:16Truly, O LORD, I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have broken my bonds.
- Psalms 119:94I am Yours; save me, for I have sought Your precepts.
- Psalms 55:23But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
- 1 Samuel 26:10David added, “As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.
- 1 Samuel 24:12–15May the LORD judge between you and me, and may the LORD take vengeance on you, but my hand will never be against you. As the old proverb says, ‘Wickedness proceeds from the wicked.’ But my hand will never be against…
- 1 Samuel 25:29And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a…
- Psalms 136:15–20but swept Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea. His loving devotion endures forever. He led His people through the wilderness. His loving devotion endures forever. He struck down great kings His loving devotion…
- Psalms 52:5Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 142:12 in some Bibles
- 143:12 in most Bibles