Verse List for PSA 140:9

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Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) ⇔  Those who surround me raise their heads. ⇔ Let the mischief from their own lips bounce back on them.

OET-LV [fn] the _head _of my _surroundings _of_my the _mischief _of their _lips _of_their may_it _cover _them[fn].
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AHB Do not grant, O LORD, the desires of the wicked ⇔do not fulfill his devising ⇔They would rise.selah

ULT ⇔  The head of the ones surrounding me— ⇔  let the mischief of their lips cover them.

UST ⇔  As for the leaders of those who surround me, ⇔  let the harmful things that they have said to others happen to them.

BSB & MSB May the heads of those who surround me ⇔  be covered in the trouble their lips have caused.

OEB ⇔  Let them not lift up their heads against me. ⇔  May the mischief they prate bring themselves to destruction,

WEBBE & WMBB As for the head of those who surround me, ⇔  let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

NET As for the heads of those who surround me – ⇔ may the harm done by their lips overwhelm them!

LSV The chief of my surrounders,
The perverseness of their lips covers them.

FBV May the harm spoken against me by those who surround me fall back on them,[fn]

T4T ⇔  Do not allow my enemies to ◄become proud/defeat me►; ⇔  cause the evil things that they say [MTY] they will do to me to happen to them, instead.

LEB • With respect to the head of those who surround me,
• may the harm of their lips cover them.

BBE As for those who come round me, let their heads be covered by the evil of their lips.

Moff ⇔  When they dare to beset me, ⇔  may their own intrigues overwhelm them!

JPS (140-10) As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

ASV As for the head of those that compass me about, ⇔ Let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

DRA Keep me from the snare, which they have laid for me, and from the stumblingblocks of them that work iniquity.

YLT The chief of my surrounders, The perverseness of their lips covereth them.

Drby [As for] the head of those that encompass me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

RV As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
(As for the head of those that compass/all_around me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.)

SLT The head of those surrounding me, the labor of their lips shall cover them.

Wbstr As for the head of those that encompass me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

KJB-1769 As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
(As for the head of those that compass/all_around me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.)

KJB-1611 As for the head of those that compasse me about: let the mischiefe of their owne lips couer them.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps Let the labour of his owne lippe couer him: who is head of them that compasse me about.
(Let the labour of his own lip cover him: who is head of them that compass/all_around me about.)

Gnva As for the chiefe of them, that compasse me about, let the mischiefe of their owne lippes come vpon them.
(As for the chief of them, that compass/all_around me about, let the mischief of their own lips come upon them.)

Cvdl Sela. Let the myschefe of their owne lippes fall vpon ye head of the, yt copase me aboute.
(Sela. Let the mischief of their own lips fall upon ye/you_all head of them, it compass/all_around me about.)

Wycl Kepe thou me fro the snare which thei ordeyneden to me; and fro the sclaundris of hem that worchen wickidnesse. Synneris schulen falle in the nett therof;
(Keep thou/you me from the snare which they ordained to me; and from the sclaundris of hem that working wickedness. Sinners should fall in the net thereof;)

Luth HErr, laß dem GOttlosen seine Begierde nicht; stärke seinen Mutwillen nicht; sie möchten sich‘s erheben. Sela.
(LORD, let to_him godless_one(s) his desire/lust(n) not; strengthen his willfulness not; they/she/them want itself raise. Sela.)

ClVg Custodi me a laqueo quem statuerunt mihi, et a scandalis operantium iniquitatem.[fn]
(Keep me from trap which they_decided to_me, and from scandals workers iniquity.)

UHB 10 רֹ֥אשׁ מְסִבָּ֑⁠י עֲמַ֖ל שְׂפָתֵ֣י⁠מוֹ יְכַסֵּֽמוֹ׃ [fn] ‡

BrLXX Φύλαξόν με ἀπὸ παγίδος ἧς συνεστήσαντό μοι, καὶ ἀπὸ σκανδάλων τῶν ἐργαζομένων τὴν ἀνομίαν.

BrTr Keep me from the snare which they have set for me, and from the stumbling-blocks of them that work iniquity.