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Deliver Me from My Enemies

Psalms 59:4

In 11 translations

BSB
For no fault of my own, they move swiftly to attack me. Arise to help me, and take notice.
KJV
They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.help: Heb. meet
WEB
I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!
ASV
They run and prepare themselves without my fault: Awake thou to help me, and behold.
LSV
Without punishment they run and prepare themselves, || Stir up to meet me, and see.
YLT
Without punishment they run and prepare themselves, Stir up to meet me, and see.
DBY
They run and prepare themselves without [my] fault: awake to meet me, and behold.
DRC58:5
Neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord: without iniquity have I run, and directed my steps.
GNV
They runne and prepare themselues without a fault on my part: arise therefore to assist me, and beholde.
JPS59:5
Without my fault, they run and prepare themselves; awake Thou to help me, and behold.
LXXE58:5
Without iniquity I ran and directed my course aright: awake to help me, and behold.

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Original-language editions

WLC59:5
בְּֽלִי־עָ֭וֺן יְרוּצ֣וּן וְיִכּוֹנָ֑נוּ ע֖וּרָה לִקְרָאתִ֣י וּרְאֵה׃KJV:Ps.59.4
LXX-Br58:5
Ανευ ἀνομίας ἔδραμον καὶ κατεύθυνα· ἐξεγέρθητι εἰς συνάντησίν μου, καὶ ἴδε.

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 35:23Awake and rise to my defense, to my cause, my God and my Lord!
  • 1 Samuel 19:12–24So Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped. Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment. When Saul sent the…
  • Isaiah 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?
  • Psalms 44:23Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
  • Acts 23:15Now then, you and the Sanhedrin petition the commander to bring him down to you on the pretext of examining his case more carefully. We are ready to kill him on the way.”
  • Psalms 35:19Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.
  • Romans 3:15“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
  • Proverbs 1:16For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.
  • Isaiah 59:7Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.
  • Psalms 5:6You destroy those who tell lies; the LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.

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

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 59:5 in some Bibles
  • 59:4 in most Bibles

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