Psalm 70:2 {69:3}
Good News Translation
May those who try to kill me be defeated and confused. May those who are happy because of my troubles be turned back and disgraced.

New Revised Standard Version
Let those be put to shame and confusion who seek my life. Let those be turned back and brought to dishonor who desire to hurt me.

Contemporary English Version
Disappoint and confuse all who want to kill me. Turn away and disgrace all who want to hurt me.

New American Bible
Let those who seek my life be confused and put to shame. Let those who desire my ruin turn back in disgrace.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek my soul:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek my soul:

Let

Psalm 6:10 Let all my enemies be ashamed, and be very much troubled: let them be turned back, and be ashamed very speedily.

Psalm 35:4,26 Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and be confounded that devise evil against me. . . .

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 102:19 Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary: from heaven the Lord hath looked upon the earth.

Isaiah 41:11 Behold all that fight against thee shall be confounded and ashamed, they shall be as nothing, and the men shall perish that strive against thee.

my soul.

be turned

Isaiah 28:13 And the word of the Lord shall be to them: Command, command again; command, command again; expect, expect again; a little there, a little there: that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

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

Context
Hurry, O LORD, to Help Me
1Unto the end, a psalm for David, to bring to remembrance that the Lord saved him. [2] O God, come to my assistance; O Lord, make haste to help me. 2Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek my soul:3Let them be turned backward, and blush for shame that desire evils to me: Let them be presently turned away blushing for shame that say to me: 'Tis well, 'tis well.…
Cross References
Psalm 35:4
Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and be confounded that devise evil against me.

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 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 54:3
For strangers have risen up against me; and the mighty have sought after my soul: and they have not set God before their eyes.

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

Ezekiel 25:3
And thou shalt say to the children of Ammon: Hear ye the word of the Lord God: Thus saith the Lord God: Because thou hast said: Ha, ha, upon my sanctuary, because it was profaned: and upon the land of Israel, because it was laid waste: and upon the house of Juda, because they are led into captivity:

Psalm 70:1
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