KJV King James Version
[Saying], Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
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Psalm 105:15
[Saying], Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
“Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!”
WEB World English Bible
“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”
ASV American Standard Version
Saying, Touch not mine anointed ones, And do my prophets no harm.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘Strike not against Mine anointed, And to My prophets do not evil.’
Surrounding context — Psalm 105
12 When they were [but] a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
13 When they went from one nation to another, from [one] kingdom to another people;
14 He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;
15 [Saying], Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
17 He sent a man before them, [even] Joseph, [who] was sold for a servant:
18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
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Zechariah 2:8For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.Genesis 26:11And Abimelech charged all [his] people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.Genesis 20:7Now therefore restore the man [his] wife; for he [is] a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore [her] not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that [are] thine.1 John 2:27But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.Genesis 49:8-33Judah, thou [art he] whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand [shall be] in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.Genesis 48:19-20And his father refused, and said, I know [it], my son, I know [it]: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.Genesis 27:39-40And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;1 Kings 19:16And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint [to be] king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint [to be] prophet in thy room.
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