Psalm 35:4 {34:4}
Good News Translation
May those who try to kill me be defeated and disgraced! May those who plot against me be turned back and confused!

New Revised Standard Version
Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek after my life. Let them be turned back and confounded who devise evil against me.

Contemporary English Version
Let all who want to kill me be disgraced and put to shame. Chase away and confuse all who plan to harm me.

New American Bible
Let those who seek my life be put to shame and disgrace. Let those who plot evil against me be turned back and confounded.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and be confounded that devise evil against me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and be confounded that devise evil against me.

confounded

Psalm 35:26 Let them blush: and be ashamed together, who rejoice at my evils. Let them be clothed with confusion and shame, who speak great things against me.

Psalm 31:17,18 Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called upon thee. Let the wicked be ashamed, and be brought down to hell. . . .

Psalm 40:14,15 Let them be confounded and ashamed together, that seek after my soul to take it away. Let them be turned backward and be ashamed that desire evils to me. . . .

Psalm 70:2,3 Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek my soul: . . .

Psalm 71:24 Yea and my tongue shall meditate on thy justice all the day; when they shall be confounded and put to shame that seek evils to me.

that

Psalm 38:12 And they that sought my soul used violence. And they that sought evils to me spoke vain things, and studied deceits all the day long.

1 Samuel 23:23 Consider, and see all his lurking holes, wherein he is hid, and return to me with the certainty of the thing, that I may go with you. And if he should even go down into the earth to hide himself, I will search him out in all the thousands of Juda.

1 Kings 19:10 And he answered: With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant: they have thrown down thy altars, they have slain thy prophets with the sword, and I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it away.

Ezekiel 13:19 And they violated me among my people, for a handful of barley, and a piece of bread, to kill souls which should not die, and to save souls alive which should not live, telling lies to my people that believe lies.

Matthew 27:1 And when morning was come, all the chief priests and ancients of the people took counsel against Jesus, that they might put him to death.

turned

Psalm 129:5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Sion.

Isaiah 37:29 When thou wast mad against me, thy pride came up to my ears: therefore I will put a ring in thy nose, and a bit between thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

Jeremiah 46:5 What then? I have seen them dismayed, and turning their backs, their valiant ones slain: they fled apace, and they looked not back: terror was round about, saith the Lord.

John 18:6 As soon therefore as he had said to them: I am he; they went backward and fell to the ground.

Context
Contend with My Opponents
3Bring out the sword, and shut up the way against them that persecute me: say to my soul: I am thy salvation. 4Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and be confounded that devise evil against me.5Let them become as dust before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord straiten them.…
Cross References
Psalm 38:12
And they that sought my soul used violence. And they that sought evils to me spoke vain things, and studied deceits all the day long.

Psalm 40:14
Let them be confounded and ashamed together, that seek after my soul to take it away. Let them be turned backward and be ashamed that desire evils to me.

Psalm 70:2
Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek my soul:

Psalm 71:13
Let them be confounded and come to nothing that detract my soul; let them be covered with confusion and blame that seek my hurt.

Psalm 83:17
Let them be ashamed and troubled for ever and ever: and let them be confounded and perish.

Psalm 129:5
Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Sion.

Jeremiah 17:18
Let them be confounded that persecute me, and let not me be confounded: let them be afraid, and let not me be afraid: bring upon them the day of affliction, and with a double destruction, destroy them.

Psalm 35:3
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