Psalms 118:13
11 They surrounded me on every side, but in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
12 They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
I was pushed so hard I was falling, but the LORD helped me.
14 The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation.
15 Shouts of joy and salvation resound in the tents of the righteous: “The right hand of the LORD performs with valor!
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I was pushed so hard I was falling, but the LORD helped me.
- KJV
- Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.
- WEB
- You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but the LORD helped me.
- ASV
- Thou didst thrust sore at me that I might fall; But Jehovah helped me.
- DARBY
- Thou hast thrust hard at me that I might fall; but Jehovah helped me.
- BLB
- You have severely thrust me that I might fall, and YHWH helped me.
- ÅB
- Hårdt støtte du[^1] meg for at jeg skulle falle; men Herren hjalp meg.
- OTB
- Du presset meg hardt for å få meg til å falle,
Men Herren støttet meg. - B1930
- Hårdt støtte du mig forat jeg skulde falle; men Herren hjalp mig. / < min fiende.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 140:4
Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked. Keep me safe from men of violence who scheme to make me stumble.
Read in contextPsalms 86:17
Show me a sign of Your goodness, that my enemies may see and be ashamed; for You, O LORD, have helped me and comforted me.
Read in contextMicah 7:8
Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.
Read in contextPsalms 18:17–18
He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from foes too mighty for me.
Read in contextMatthew 4:1–11
Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
Read in context1 Samuel 25:29
And 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 sling.
Read in context2 Samuel 17:1–3
Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men and set out tonight in pursuit of David.
Read in contextPsalms 56:1–3
Be merciful to me, O God, for men are hounding me; all day they press their attack.
Read in context