KJV King James Version
Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, [which is] thy sword:
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Psalm 17:13
Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, [which is] thy sword:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Arise, O LORD, confront them! Bring them to their knees; deliver me from the wicked by Your sword,
WEB World English Bible
Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;
ASV American Standard Version
Arise, O Jehovah, Confront him, cast him down: Deliver my soul from the wicked by thy sword;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Arise, O Jehovah, go before his face, Cause him to bend. Deliver my soul from the wicked, Thy sword,
Surrounding context — Psalm 17
10 They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
12 Like as a lion [that] is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, [which is] thy sword:
14 From men [which are] thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, [which have] their portion in [this] life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid [treasure]: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their [substance] to their babes.
15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
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Psalm 7:6Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me [to] the judgment [that] thou hast commanded.Psalm 44:26Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake.Psalm 3:7Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies [upon] the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.Psalm 44:23Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast [us] not off for ever.Psalm 7:11-13God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry [with the wicked] every day.Psalm 22:20Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.Acts 4:28For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.Isaiah 10:5O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.Isaiah 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. [Art] thou not it that hath cut Rahab, [and] wounded the dragon?Isaiah 10:15Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? [or] shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake [itself] against them that lift it up, [or] as if the staff should lift up [itself, as if it were] no wood.Psalm 119:126[It is] time for [thee], LORD, to work: [for] they have made void thy law.Habakkuk 1:12[Art] thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.Isaiah 13:5They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, [even] the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.Isaiah 37:26Hast thou not heard long ago, [how] I have done it; [and] of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities [into] ruinous heaps.
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