Psalm 27:12 {26:12}
Good News Translation
Don't abandon me to my enemies, who attack me with lies and threats.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not give me up to the will of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen against me, and they are breathing out violence.

Contemporary English Version
Don't let them do to me what they want. People tell lies about me and make violent threats,

New American Bible
Do not abandon me to the desire of my foes; malicious and lying witnesses have risen against me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Deliver me not over to the will of them that trouble me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me; and iniquity hath lied to itself.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deliver me not over to the will of them that trouble me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me; and iniquity hath lied to itself.

I will

Psalm 31:8 And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a spacious place.

Psalm 35:25 Let them not say in their hearts: It is well, it is well, to our mind: neither let them say: We have swallowed him up.

Psalm 38:16 For I said: Lest at any time my enemies rejoice over me: and whilst my feet are moved, they speak great things against me.

Psalm 41:11 By this I know, that thou hast had a good will for me: because my enemy shall not rejoice over me.

Psalm 140:8 Give me not up, O Lord, from my desire to the wicked: they have plotted against me; do not thou forsake me, lest they should triumph.

FALSE

Psalm 35:11 Unjust witnesses rising up have asked me things I knew not.

Exodus 20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

1 Samuel 22:9,10 And Doeg, the Edomite, who stood by, and was the chief among the servants of Saul, answering, said: I saw the son of Isai, in Nobe, with Achimelech, the son of Achitob, the priest. . . .

1 Samuel 26:19 Now therefore hear, I pray thee, my lord the king, the words of thy servant: If the Lord stir thee up against me, let him accept of sacrifice: but if the sons of men, they are cursed in the sight of the Lord, who have cast me out this day, that I should not dwell in the inheritance of the Lord, saying: Go, serve strange gods.

2 Samuel 16:7,8 And thus said Semei when he cursed the king: Come out, come out, thou man of blood, and thou man of Belial. . . .

Matthew 26:59,60 And the chief priests and the whole council sought false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death. . . .

Acts 6:11-13 Then they suborned men to say they had heard him speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God. . . .

breathe

Psalm 25:19 Consider my enemies for they are multiplied, and have hated me with an unjust hatred.

Acts 9:1 And Saul, as yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

Acts 26:11 And oftentimes punishing them, in every synagogue, I compelled them to blaspheme: and being yet more mad against them, I persecuted them even unto foreign cities.

Context
The LORD is My Salvation
11Set me, O Lord, a law in thy way, and guide me in the right path, because of my enemies. 12Deliver me not over to the will of them that trouble me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me; and iniquity hath lied to itself.13I believe to see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.…
Cross References
Matthew 26:60
And they found not, whereas many false witnesses had come in. And last of all there came two false witnesses:

Acts 9:1
And Saul, as yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

Deuteronomy 19:16
If a lying witness stand against a man, accusing him of transgression,

Deuteronomy 19:18
And when after most diligent inquisition, they shall find that the false witness hath told a lie against his brother:

Psalm 17:9
From the face of the wicked who have afflicted me. My enemies have surrounded my soul:

Psalm 35:11
Unjust witnesses rising up have asked me things I knew not.

Psalm 41:2
The Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth: and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies.

Proverbs 6:19
My son, keep the commandments of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

Jeremiah 37:14
Wherefore the princes were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him, and cast him into the prison that was in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for he was chief over the prison.

Psalm 27:11
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