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I Will Watch My Ways

Psalms 39:8

In 11 translations

BSB
Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.
KJV
Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
WEB
Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.
ASV
Deliver me from all my transgressions: Make me not the reproach of the foolish.
LSV
Deliver me from all my transgressions, || Do not make me a reproach of the fool.
YLT
From all my transgressions deliver me, A reproach of the fool make me not.
DBY
Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the reproach of the foolish.
DRC38:9
Deliver thou me from all my iniquities: thou hast made me a reproach to the fool.
GNV
Deliuer me from all my transgressions, and make me not a rebuke vnto the foolish.
JPS39:9
Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the reproach of the base.
LXXE38:9
Deliver me from all my transgressions: thou hast made me a reproach to the foolish.

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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

WLC39:9
מִכָּל־פְּשָׁעַ֥י הַצִּילֵ֑נִי חֶרְפַּ֥ת נָ֝בָ֗ל אַל־תְּשִׂימֵֽנִי׃KJV:Ps.39.8
LXX-Br38:9
Ἀπὸ πασῶν τῶν ἀνομιῶν μου ῥῦσαί με, ὄνειδος ἄφρονι ἔδωκάς 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 51:14Deliver me from bloodguilt, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing of Your righteousness.
  • Psalms 44:13You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
  • Micah 7:19He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.
  • Joel 2:17Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they…
  • Joel 2:19And the LORD answered His people: “Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and by them you will be satisfied. I will never again make you a reproach among the nations.
  • Psalms 57:3He reaches down from heaven and saves me; He rebukes those who trample me. Selah God sends forth His loving devotion and His truth.
  • Psalms 51:7–10Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice. Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.…
  • Psalms 130:8And He will redeem Israel from all iniquity.
  • Psalms 65:3When iniquities prevail against me, You atone for our transgressions.
  • Psalms 25:18Consider my affliction and trouble, and take away all my sins.
  • Psalms 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
  • Psalms 25:11For the sake of Your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, for it is great.
  • Matthew 1:21She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
  • Psalms 119:39Turn away the disgrace I dread, for Your judgments are good.
  • Psalms 35:21They gape at me and say, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen!”
  • Titus 2:14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

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