Psalms 35:11
9 Then my soul will rejoice in the LORD and exult in His salvation.
10 All my bones will exclaim, “Who is like You, O LORD, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?”
Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.
12 They repay me evil for good, to the bereavement of my soul.
13 Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- 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.
- 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.
- DARBY
- Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they lay to my charge things which I know not.
- BLB
- Violent witnesses rise up; those whom I do not know; they interrogate me.
- ÅB
- Urettferdige vitner står fram;
de spør meg om det jeg ikke vet. - OTB
- Falske vitner reiser seg;
De spør meg om ting jeg ikke vet. - B1930
- Der opstår urettferdige vidner, de spør mig om det jeg ikke vet.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 27:12
Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.
Read in contextMatthew 26:59–60
Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.
Read in contextActs 6:13
where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.
Read in context1 Samuel 24:9
and said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Look, David intends to harm you’?
Read in contextActs 24:12–13
Yet my accusers did not find me debating with anyone in the temple or riling up a crowd in the synagogues or in the city.
Read in context1 Samuel 25:10
But Nabal asked them, “Who is David? Who is this son of Jesse? Many servants these days are breaking away from their masters.
Read in contextActs 24:5–6
We 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,
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