Psalms 27:12
10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.
- KJV
- Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
- WEB
- Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
- ASV
- Deliver me not over unto the will of mine adversaries: For false witnesses are risen up against me, And such as breathe out cruelty.
- DARBY
- Deliver me not over to the will of mine adversaries; for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out violence.
- BLB
- Do not give me up to the desires of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence.
- ÅB
- Overgi meg ikke til fiendenes begjær!
for falske vitner reiser seg imot meg,
og menn som ytrer vold. - OTB
- Overgi meg ikke til mine motstanderes vilje,
For falske vitner har reist seg mot meg,
Og voldelige puster ut vold. - B1930
- Overgi mig ikke til mine fienders mordlyst! for falske vidner står op imot mig, og menn som fnyser av vold.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 26:59–60
Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
Read in contextPsalms 31:8
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
Read in contextPsalms 35:11
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
Read in contextPsalms 41:11
By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
Read in contextPsalms 35:25
Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
Read in contextActs 6:11–13
Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
Read in contextExodus 20:16
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Read in contextActs 9:1
And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
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