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Contend with My Opponents, O LORD

Psalms 35:11

In 11 translations

BSB
Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.
KJV
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.False…: Heb. Witnesses of wrongthey…: Heb. they asked me
WEB
Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.
ASV
Unrighteous witnesses rise up; They ask me of things that I know not.
LSV
Violent witnesses rise up, || That which I have not known they ask me.
YLT
Violent witnesses rise up, That which I have not known they ask me.
DBY
Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they lay to my charge things which I know not.
DRC34:11
Unjust witnesses rising up have asked me things I knew not.
GNV
Cruell witnesses did rise vp: they asked of me things that I knewe not.
JPS
Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I know not.
LXXE34:11
Unjust witnesses arose, and asked me of things I knew not.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
יְ֭קוּמוּן עֵדֵ֣י חָמָ֑ס אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־יָ֝דַ֗עְתִּי יִשְׁאָלֽוּנִי׃
LXX-Br34:11
Ἀναστάντες μάρτυρες ἄδικοι, ἃ οὐκ ἐγίνωσκον, ἐπηρώτων με.

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 27:12Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.
  • Matthew 26:59–60Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death. But they did not find any, though many false witnesses came forward. Finally two came forward
  • 1 Samuel 24:9and said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Look, David intends to harm you’?
  • Acts 6:13where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.
  • Acts 24:12–13Yet my accusers did not find me debating with anyone in the temple or riling up a crowd in the synagogues or in the city. Nor can they prove to you any of their charges against me.
  • Acts 24:5–6We have found this man to be a pestilence, stirring up dissension among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes, and he even tried to desecrate the temple; so we seized him.
  • 1 Samuel 25:10But Nabal asked them, “Who is David? Who is this son of Jesse? Many servants these days are breaking away from their masters.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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